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The Atlantic and Its Enemies

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by Norman Stone


  P

  Packard, Vance, Status Seekers

  Pakistan:

  and Afghanistan

  American support for

  and China

  establishment of

  nuclear weapons development

  war in Kashmir

  Palermo

  Palestine:

  British Mandate

  partition

  Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)

  Palestinians

  Palme, Olof

  Panama

  Panmunjom

  papacy

  Papandreou, Andreas

  Paris:

  1930s

  1960s

  Bibliothèque Nationale

  bourgeoisie

  Centre Beaubourg

  Eiffel Tower

  financial institutions

  Louvre museum

  metro

  Musée’Orsay

  Palais de Chaillot

  post-war rationing

  property prices

  revolution of 1848

  suburban tower blocks

  Paris Commune

  Paris Peace accords (1973)

  Paris Peace conference (1947)

  Paris summit (1960)

  Parsifal (opera)

  Partisan Review

  Pasternak, Boris

  Pathans

  Patten, Chris, Baron Patten of Barnes

  Patti, Adelina

  Pavlov, Georgy

  Pavlovsky, General Ivan

  PDK (Kurdistan Democratic Party)

  Pearl Harbor

  Peasant Party (Hungarian)

  peasantry

  Chile

  China

  Cuba

  Czechoslovakia

  France

  Germany

  Greece

  Hungary

  Italy

  Poland

  Romania

  Russia / USSR

  Turkey

  Vietnam

  Peck, Gregory

  Pei, I. M.

  Peking

  PEN club

  Peng Pai

  Penguin (publishers)

  penicillin

  Penn Central railway

  ‘Pentagon Papers’

  People’s Liberation Army see Red Army (Chinese)

  perestroyka

  Perkins, Thomas

  Perle, Richard

  Persepolis

  Peter the Great

  Petőfi, Sandor

  petrochemicals industries

  Pflimlin, Pierre

  Philadelphia

  Philby, Kim

  Philipe, Gérard

  Philippines

  Phillips, Alban William

  Phillips Curve

  Phillips, Melanie

  Phnom Penh

  Phoenix, Arizona

  Piaf, Édith

  Picasso, Pablo

  Pieck, Walter

  pieds noirs

  Pill, contraceptive

  Pinay, Antoine

  Piñera, José

  Pinochet, Augusto

  ‘Pinochet solution’

  Pinter, Harold

  Pipes, Richard

  Piscator, Erwin

  Pitsunda

  PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party)

  Platts-Mills, John

  Playboy (magazine)

  Plaza Agreement (1985)

  Pleiku

  Pleven, René

  PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization)

  Plojhar, Mgr Josef

  Plumb, Sir John

  plutonium

  Plyushch, Leonid

  Podolia

  Poindexter, John

  Poitiers

  Pol Pot

  Poland:

  agricultural collectivization

  anti-semitism

  anti-Soviet demonstrations

  aristocracy

  Catholic Church

  coal industry

  collapse of communism

  Communist Party

  communist takeover

  Convention of Targowice (1792)

  emigrants to Germany

  ethnic German population

  and France

  under Gierek

  under Gomułka

  inflation

  intelligentsia

  Jews in

  and Khrushchev’s relaxation attempts

  and Marshall Plan

  martial law (1981-2)

  ‘modernization’

  oil money invested in

  peasantry

  relations with USSR

  relations with West Germany

  Second World War

  Solidarność (‘Solidarity’)

  Stalinization

  steel industry

  territorial losses

  trade unions

  UB (secret police)

  Ukrainians in

  universities

  Warsaw Uprising (1944)

  WRON (national security council)

  Polaris (missile)

  Poll Tax (Britain)

  Pollitt, Brian

  Pomerania

  Pompidou, Georges

  Ponomarev, Boris

  Ponzi schemes

  Poos, Jacques

  population growth

  collapse of

  Porsche, Ferdinand

  Port Said

  Port Talbot

  Port-au-Prince

  Portugal

  Potsdam

  Potsdam conference (1945)

  POUM (Spanish anarchist organization)

  Powell, Charles, Baron

  Poznan

  Pozsgay, Imre

  Prague:

  architecture

  Communists’ organized discontent

  Czernin Palace

  Kinsky Palace

  museum of security police

  revolution of 1989

  Smichov

  Stalinization

  undamaged by war

  working class

  ‘Prague Spring’

  Prats, Carlos

  Pravda (newspaper)

  Prebisch, Raúl

  Presley, Elvis

  Preuves (magazine)

  Primakov, Yevgeney

  Prisender, Edgar

  privatization of industry and services:

  Britain

  Chile

  West Germany

  prostitution

  Protestant churches:

  and economic development

  in Germany

  in Hungary

  missionaries in China

  Thirty Years War

  see also Calvinist Church; Lutheran Church

  Prussia

  PUK (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan)

  Punjab

  ‘pursuit of happiness’

  Pusan

  Pushkin, Alexander

  ‘Pushtunistan’

  Putin, Vladimir

  Q

  Quang Tri (US combat base)

  Queen Elizabeth, RMS

  Quemoy islands

  Quennell, Peter

  R

  Raab, Julius

  radar

  Radio Urumchi

  Rákosi, Mátyás

  Rakowski, Mieczysław

  Rambouillet summit (1975)

  Ramsay, Douglas

  Rangel, Charles

  Rangoon

  Rapallo, Treaty of (1922)

  Rasputin, Valentin

  rationing:

  Britain

  East Germany

  France

  Ravenscraig steel works

  Reader’s Digest (magazine)

  Reagan, Nancy

  Reagan, Ronald:

  background and character

  and Ceauşescu

  and collapse of communism

  core beliefs

  defence policy

  economic policy

  election as President (1980); (1984)

  enemies of

  on failure of Johnson�
��s Great Society

  and Goldwater campaign

  Governor of California

  Iran-Contra affair

  marriages

  oratory skills

  and Poland

  popularity

  relationship with Margaret Thatcher

  retirement

  Savings and Loans crisis

  ‘The Speech’ (1980)

  Strategic Defense Initiative (‘Star Wars’)

  and universities

  visits Britain

  work regimen and leadership style

  Récsk

  Red Army (Chinese; ‘People’s Liberation Army’)

  Red Army (Soviet):

  atrocities committed by

  conquering of eastern and central Europe

  Second World War casualties

  Red Army Faction

  Red Brigades

  Redford, Robert

  Reece, Sir Gordon

  Rees-Mogg, William, Baron

  ‘Reg Q’ (American interest rate regulation)

  Regan, Donald

  Reich, Robert

  Reider, Jonathan

  Reinhardt, Max

  Remington Rand (corporation)

  Rémond, René

  Renault (automobile manufacturer)

  reparations, First World War

  reparations, Second World War:

  German

  Japanese

  Soviet demands

  Republican Party (United States)

  Rerum Novarum (papal enyclical)

  Reuter, Ernst

  Reuther, Walter

  revolutions of 1848

  Rez, Adam

  Rhee, Syngman

  Rhineland

  Rhodesia

  Richter, Horst-Eberhard

  Richter, Svyatoslav

  Ridley, Nicholas, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale

  Riesman, David, The Lonely Crowd

  Rimbaud, Arthur

  Robbins, Lionel, Baron

  Robespierre, Maximilien

  Robinson, Joan

  Rocard, Michel

  Rochet, Waldeck

  Rockefeller, Nelson

  Rodriguez, Carlos

  Roe. Wade (1973)

  Rohatyn, Felix

  Rolls-Royce

  Roman Empire

  Romania:

  communist takeover

  economy

  establishment of Romanian state

  ethnic German population

  fall of Ceauşescu

  and France

  Hungarian minority

  Jews

  Kurdish nationalists’ summer schools

  labour camps

  ‘Little Entente’

  nationalism

  Orthodox Church

  peasantry

  Soviet annexation of Bessarabia

  territorial gains from Hungary

  universities

  Rome:

  airport bombing (1985)

  student population

  Rome, Treaty of (1957)

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano:

  banking reform

  and Chinesewar

  and Johnson

  and Kennedy

  and Keynes

  and lying

  New Deal

  reputation

  and Supreme Court

  Yalta conference (1945)

  Röpke, Wilhelm

  Rostov

  Rostow, Walt

  Rotterdam

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

  Rover (automobile manufacturer)

  Royal Dutch-Shell (oil company)

  Royal Society

  rubber

  Rublev, Andrey

  Rueff, Jacques

  Ruhr

  international authority

  Ruhrgas

  Ruijin

  Rusk, Dean

  Russell, Bertrand, 3rd Earl

  Russell, Conrad, 5th Earl

  Russia, Tsarist

  Russia, post-Soviet

  RussianWar (1917-23)

  Russian Revolution (1917)

  fortieth anniversary

  Western views of

  ‘rust belt’

  Rylands, George ‘Dadie’

  Ryzhkov, Nikolay

  S

  Saarland

  Sabanci dynasty

  Sadat, Anwar

  Saddam Hussein

  Saigon:

  American embassy

  anti-American demonstrations

  bombing of

  fall of (1975)

  French rule

  refugee population

  wartime squalor

  St Anthony’s College, Oxford

  St Louis, Missouri

  St Petersburg (Leningrad)

  Hermitage

  Russian Museum

  Soviet era slums

  Zoo

  Saint-Pulgent, Maryvonne de

  Sakarya, battle of (1921)

  Sakharov, Andrey

  Saladin

  Salisbury, Harrison

  Salomon Brothers (bank)

  Salonica

  SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)

  Saltén, Felix

  Saltley Coke Depot

  Salzburg Festival

  Samara (Kuybyshev)

  Samarkand

  Samuelson, Paul

  San Francisco

  San Francisco Treaty (1951)

  Sandys, Julian

  Santiago, Chile

  Catholic University

  University of Chile

  Santiago de Cuba

  Sapieha, Cardinal Prince

  Sartre, Jean-Paul

  Saudi Arabia:

  and Afghan war

  and Iran

  oil production

  and Yom Kippur War (1973)

  Savak (Iranian secret police)

  Savings and Loans crisis (USA)

  Saxony

  Scargill, Arthur

  Schacht, Hjalmar

  Scheel, Walter

  Schenectady, New York

  Schiller, Karl

  Schily, Otto

  Schlesinger, James

  Schleyer, Hanns-Martin

  Schmidt, Helmut:

  background and character

  and Britain

  and Carter

  economic policy

  and European Community

  and Gierek

  and Honecker

  on the Left

  Minister of Finances

  Ostpolitik

  Rambouillet summit (1975)

  and Reagan administration

  succeeds Brandt as Chancellor

  Schoenberg, Arnold

  Schreiberhau

  Schuman, Robert

  Schumpeter, Joseph

  Scotland:

  comparisons with Saxony

  Conservative Party in

  first recorded Scottish utterance

  nationalism

  Protestantism

  referendum on independence (1979)

  SDP (British Social Democratic Party)

  ‘Second Cold War’

  Second World War:

  bombing of Germany

  British victories

  German capitulation

  Japanese surrender

  Soviet victories

  Victory Day (1945)

  SED (East German Party of Socialist Unity)

  Sédillot, René, Le Coût de la Révolution française

  Seeckt, Hans von

  Seldon, Arthur

  Sellers, Peter

  Selyunin, Vasily

  Semipalatinsk

  Semyonov, Vladimir

  Şener, Mahmut

  Seoul

  serfdom

  Servan-Schreiber, Jean-Jacques

  Seton-Watson, Hugh

  Sèvres Protocol (1956)

  Shah of Iran (Mohammad Reza Pahlavi)

  fall of

  Shakespeare, William

  Shakhnazarov, Georgy

  Shanghai

  S
hannon, Claude Elwood

  Shanxi province

  Shawcross, Hartley, Baron

  Shcherbitsky, Vladimir

  Sheehan, Neil

  Sheffield

  Sheffield, HMS

  Shelest, Petro

  Shell (oil company)

  Sherman, Sir Alfred

  Shevardnadze, Edward

  Shigemitsu, Mamoru

  Shigeru, Yoshida

  shipbuilding

  Shultz, George

  Siberia

  gas pipeline

  Sibiu

  Sichuan province

  Sicily

  Siemens-Schuckert (corporation)

  Sihanouk, King

  Sihanoukville

  Siirt

  Šik, Ota

  Sikhs

  Silesia

  Simenon, Georges

  Simes, Dmitri

  Singapore

  single parents

  Sino-Soviet split

  Sinop

  Sissons, Michael

  Six Day War (1967)

  Skidelsky, Robert, Baron

  Sladkevičius, Vincentas

  Slansky, Rudolf

  Slater Walker Securities (bank)

  slavery

  Slovakia:

  author’s imprisonment in

  Catholic Church

  Communist Party

  Democratic Party

  Hungarians in

  Jews in

  Lutheran Church

  nationalism

  and ‘Prague Spring’

  relations with Czech lands

  Second World War

  Secret Service

  Slovenia

  Slump, Great (1930s)

  Smiley, Xan

  Smith, Adam

  Smith, David

  Smith, Frederick

  Smithsonian agreement (on exchange rates; 1971)

  smoking bans

  Smoot-Hawley tariff

  snoek (fish)

  Snow, C. P., Baron

  Snow, Edgar

  Sobchak, Anatoly

  Social Democratic Party (British; SDP)

  Social Democrats (Austrian)

  Social Democrats (Czechoslovak)

  Social Democrats (German; SPD):

  post-war occupied Germany

  Weimar Republic

  West Germany

  Social Democrats (Hungarian)

  Socialist Unity Party (East German; SED)

  ‘soft professions’

  solar power

  Solidarność (‘Solidarity’; Polish trade union)

  Solomentsev, Mikhail

  Solvay, Ernest

  Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

  Somalia

  Somoza, Anastasio

  Sontag, Susan

  Sopron

  Sorbonne

  Soros, George

  SOS Racisme

  South Africa

  South Georgia

  South Korea:

  economic success

  establishment of

  shipbuilding

  steel industry

  wig exports

  see also Korean War

  South Vietnam:

  American investment

  Army (ARVN)

  communist takeover

  corruption

  Diem regime

  establishment of

  fall of Saigon (1975)

  land reform failure

  refugee population see also Vietnam War

  Soutou, Georges-Henri

  Souvarine, Boris

  Soviet Union see USSR

  Sozialmarktwirtschaft (West German)

  space programmes:

  American

  Soviet

  Spain:

 

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