by Norman Stone
and de Gaulle
death
and East Germany
and Helsinki conference (1975)
and Johnson
and Middle East
nationalities policy
and Orthodox Church
‘our common European home’
and Poland
political reforms
and ‘Prague Spring’
and Soviet satellite states
and Stalin
succeeds Khrushchev
and Vietnam
Brioni island
Britain:
agriculture
atomic bombs
automobile industry
balance of payments
banking system
and Chinesewar
civil service
class system
coal industry
Communist Party
council housing
crime
cultural institutions
currency controls
and Cyprus
defence expenditure
Department of Trade and Industry
Depression (1930s)
devaluation of sterling
divorce rates
economic and political decline
education system (see also universities)
and EEC/EU
and Egypt
emigration
and establishment of NATO
and European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM)
Falklands War (1982)
family breakdown
film industry
financial deregulation
fishing industry
general elections: (1945); (1950); (1951); (1959); (1970); (1974); (1979); (1983)
gold reserves
and GreekWar
IMF bail-out (1976)
import surcharges
income per capita
Industrial Revolution
industrial wastelands
inflation
intelligentsia
and Iran
Lend-Lease aid
and Malaya
and Marshall Plan
middle classes
miners’ strike (1984-5)
monarchy
National Health Service
nationalization of industry
navy
North Sea oil
nuclear weapons
oil imports
Poll Tax
post-war debt
post-war shortages and rationing
privatizations
productivity levels
property prices
public transport
race riots
scientific and technological developments
Second World War
shipbuilding
steel industry
strikes
Suez crisis
taxation
television
textile industry
trade unions
underclass
unemployment
universities
Welfare State
Westland affair (‘Westgate’; 1986)
winter weather of 1946-7
withdrawal of forces from Gulf (1971)
zone of occupation in Germany
British Airways
British Commonwealth
British Empire:
American antipathy towards
decline of
decolonization
revitalization attempts
trade
British Leyland (automobile manufacturer)
British Petroleum (BP)
British Steel
British Telecom
Brittan, Sir Samuel
Bronfman, Edgar
Brown, Andrew
Brucan, Silviu
Bruce, David
Bruges
Brussels
Brussels Exhibition (1958)
Brussels Pact (1948)
Bryan, William Jennings
Brzezinski, Zbigniew
Bucak, Mehmet Celal
Bucharest
Buck, Pearl S.
Buckley, William
Budapest:
anti-Communist demonstrations
author’s travels in
dinginess of communist era
Jews in
Piarist School
Stalinization
war damage
Buddhism
Buenos Aires
Bukovsky, Vladimir
Bulgakov, Mikhail
Heart of a Dog
Bulganin, Nikolay
Bulgaria
Bullock, Alan, Baron
Bundesbank (German Federal Bank)
Bundy, McGeorge
Bundy, William
Burke, Edmund
Burlatsky, Fyodor
Burma
Burton, Phillip
Bush, George
business schools
Byelorussia
Byrnes, James F.
Byron, George, 5th Baron
C
cable television
Cachin, Françoise
Çağlayangil, Ihsan Sabri
Cairncross, Sir Alec
Cairncross, John
Calcutta
California:
armaments industry
Khrushchev in
population growth
Proposition(1978)
Reagan as Governor
Silicon Valley
Callaghan, James, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff
Calvinist Church
Cam Ranh Bay (US air base)
Cambodia:
‘boat people’
French rule
Khmer Rouge
‘killing fields’
and Vietnam War
Vietnamese invasion (1978)
Cambridge University
Cambridge spies
Cavendish Laboratory
school of economics
Camdessus, Michel
Camp David accords (1978)
Canada
Cannes Film Festival
cannibalism
Cao, Huynh Van
Caperton, William B.
Cappadocia
CARE (Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe)
Carpathian Mountains
Carr, E. H.
Carrington, Peter, 6th Baron
cars see automobile industry
Carter, Jimmy:
background and character
Camp David accords (1978)
and Chile
and CIA
defence policy
economic policy
education policy
election as President
energy policy
failures of Administration
Governor of Georgia
and Iran
loses 1980 election to Reagan
and Margaret Thatcher
moralizing
refuses to meet Bukovsky
reputation
retirement
and Turkish coup (1980)
work regimen
Carter, Rosalynn
Casaroli, Cardinal Agostino
Casey, William
Castro, Fidel:
background and education
and Bay of Pigs invasion
and Crisis of 1962
imprisonment
and Khrushchev
revolution
US campaign to limit appeal
visits Chile
Castro, Raúl
Catherine the Great
Catholic Church:
in Austria
in Chile
and Christian Democracy
and Communism
Counter-Reformation
in Czechoslovakia
and economic development
in France
in Germany
in Hungary
in Ireland
and the Left
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and Reagan administration
Rerum Novarum (enyclical)
Thirty Years War
Vatican(ecumenical council)
in Vietnam see also Vatican
CDU see Christian Democrats (German)
Ceauşescu, Elena
Ceauşescu, Nicolae
cell phones
censorship:
in Czechoslovakia
in USSR
in West
Central African Empire
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Cézanne, Paul
Chaldean Christians
Chambord, château de
Chams (Vietnamese Moslems)
Chandler, Alfred
Channel Tunnel
Chaplin, Sir Charlie
Charles, Prince of Wales
Charles X, King of France
Chateaubriand, François-René de
Chaudhuri, Nirad
Chaunu, Pierre
Chechens
Chechnya
Cheka (Russian secret police) see also KGB
Chéreau, Patrice
Chernenko, Konstantin
Chevalier, Maurice
Chevron (oil company)
Cheysson, Claude
Chiang Kai-shek:
American view of
andwar
government in Taiwan
mausoleum
Chicago
Chicago school of economics
Chile:
under Allende
Carter’s handling of
Catholic Church
Christian Democrats
civil war (1891)
Communist Party
copper industry
coup of 1973
DINA (secret police)
education system (see also universities)
and Falklands War (1982)
geography
inflation
land reform
native Indian population
peasantry
Pinochet regime
political instability
population growth
poverty
privatizations
trade unions
unemployment
universities
wine industry
China, Republic of:
backwardness
civil war
Communist Party
emergence of communist movement
intelligentsia
Japanese invasion and occupation
Kuomintang (Nationalists)
land redistribution
Long March (1934-5)
membership of UN Security Council
peasantry
Protestant missionaries
Second World War
Soviet invasion
trade unions see also Taiwan
China, People’s Republic of:
and Afghan War
atomic and nuclear weapons
border conflicts with India
border conflicts with Russia/ USSR
‘cultural revolution’
economic growth
famines and starvation
friendship treaty with USSR (1950)
‘hundred flowers’ campaign
intelligentsia
international support for
Korean War
Mao’s inauguration of People’s Republic
Nixon’s visit (1972)
and ‘peaceful coexistence’ doctrine
Sino-Soviet split
and Taiwan
Tiananmen Square massacre (1989)
tyranny and destruction of regime
and Vietnam
Chirac, Jacques
Cholkovsky, Konstantin
Chonchol, Jacques
Chou En-lai
Christian Democrats (Chilean)
Christian Democrats (German; CDU)
Christian Democrats (Italian)
Christian Women’s Camp (Hungarian)
Chrudinák, Aladár
Chrysler (automobile manufacturer)
Church of England
Churchill, Sir Winston:
calls for European unity
and Chiang Kai-shek
Congress of Europe (1948)
declining influence
and Eden’s premiership
and Greece
hopes for reconciliation with USSR
on India
‘Iron Curtain’ speech
loses 1945 election
and Poland
reputation
Teheran conference (1943)
Yalta conference (1945)
and Yugoslavia
CIA (US Central Intelligence Agency):
and Afghanistan
and Bay of Pigs invasion
and Cambodia
and Chile
and collapse of USSR
Congressional restriction of
establishment of
and Greek Colonels’ coup (1967)
journalists’ attacks on
and overthrow of Mossadegh
and ‘Second Cold War’
and Suez crisis
and Vietnam
Ciba (chemical company)
Čierna nad Tisou
cigarettes
smoking bans
City of London
‘big bang’ (1986)
Clark Kerr, Archibald, 1st Baron Inverchapel
Clark, William
Clay, Lucius
Clayton, William.
Clifford, Clark
climate change
Club of Rome
CNN (television network)
Coal Board (British)
coal mining:
Belgium
Britain
ECSC (European Coal and Steel Community)
Germany
Luxemburg
Poland
Turkey
USA
Cobb, Richard
CoCom (Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls)
Code Napoléon
Cohen, Warren
Cohn-Bendit, Daniel
coin-clipping
Çolakoğlu, Nuri
Colby, William
collectivization, agricultural
Cuba
Czechoslovakia
East Germany
Poland
USSR
Vietnam
Cologne
Colombia
Colt, Samuel
Combes, Émile
Comecon
Comédie Française
Cominform
Comintern
schools
Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
Common Market see European Economic Community
Communist Party of the Soviet Union:
Brezhnev’s reforms
Central Committee
characteristics of documentation and meetings
Gorbachev’s reforms
International Department of Central Committee
Khrushchev’s reforms
Kosygin’s reforms
nomenklatura
Party Congresses; 17th (1934); 20th (1956);t (1959); 23rd (1966); 24th (1971); 27th (1986); 28th (1990)
Politburo
power struggle following Stalin’s death
Praesidium
relationship with KGB
Stalin’s purges
suicides of members
Comnena, Anna
Compaq (corporation)
computers:
development of
as emblem of the eighties
and financial markets
manufacturers
and public sector
in USSR see also information technology
concentration camps:
East European Communists’
Nazi
Soviet
Concorde (aircraft)
condom sizes
Confede
ration of British Industry
Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (Helsinki, 1975)
Congdon, Tim
Congress of Europe (1948)
Congress of the Peoples of the East (1920)
Connally, John
Connolly, Bernard
Conquest, Robert
Conservative Party (British):
1945 election
association with Church and State
Margaret Thatcher replaces Heath as leader
Margaret Thatcher’s election victories
Margaret Thatcher’s fall from power
Constant, Benjamin
contraceptive Pill
Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe (CARE)
copper
Copts
Corbusier, Le
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Corsica
Corvalán, Luis
Council of Europe
council housing (British)
Counter-Reformation
Cracow
Craig, Gordon
Crichel Down scandal (1954)
Crimea
Crimean War (1853-6)
Cripps, Sir Stafford
Croatia
Croham, Douglas Allen, Baron
Cronkite, Walter
Crosland, Anthony
Cruzat-Lorrain (Chilean conglomerate)
Csap
CSCE see Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe
Cuba:
and Angola
Batista regime
Bay of Pigs invasion (1961)
Communist Party
Crisis of 1962
Guantanamo naval base
independence from Spain
land reform and collectivization
peasantry
revolution
sugar production
trade unions
Cuba Socialista (journal)
Currie, Lauchlin
Çürükkaya, Selim
Curzon, George, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Cyprus
Czechoslovakia:
Agrarian Party
agricultural collectivization
anti-clericalism
author’s imprisonment in
Catholic Church
censorship
Communist Party
communist takeover (‘Czech coup’)
and Cuban crisis of 1962
ethnic German population
fall of communism
under Husák
industry
intelligentsia
Khrushchev’s relaxation attempts
‘Little Entente’
and Marshall Plan
National Front
National Socialists/Radicals
under Novotný
peasantry
‘Prague Spring’
purge trials (1951)
Second World War ‘Protectorate’
Social Democrats
Soviet invasion
StB (security service)
territorial gains from Hungary
territorial losses to USSR
trade unions
treaty with West Germany
see also Slovakia
Częstochowa
D
Da Nang
Dahrendorf, Gustav
Dahrendorf, Ralf, Baron
Dakhichev, Viktor
Daley, Richard J.
Dalton, Hugh, Baron
Daly, Edward J.
dams
Daniels, Anthony
Danton (film)
d’Astier de la Vigerie, Henri
Davies, R. W.
Davy, Richard
Dayan, Moshe