Revolution 1989

by Victor Sebestyen

  15 Quoted in Siani-Davies, Romanian Revolution, p. 237

  16 Maluan interview, Romania Libera, 14 January 1990

  17 Romania Libera, 14 January 1990

  18 Brucan in conversation with the author; Stanculescu, ‘Nu V Fie Mil’; Militaru, BBC interview with John Simpson, 12 January 1990

  19 Brucan as quoted in Siani-Davies, Romanian Revolution, p. 286, and in S. Brucan The Wasted Generation: Memoirs of the Romanian Journey from Capitalism to Socialism and Back (Westview, New York, 1993), pp. 293-6

  20 GF, Falin reports on Romania.

  21 APRF Diplomatiecheski vestnik 1995-91, Moscow, pp. 74-9, doc 149

  FINALE1 Transcript of Malta Summit, CWIHP

  2 BBC World Service news report, 2 January 1990

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  INDEX

  Able Archer 83 exercise

  Aboimov, Ivan

  Abuladze, Tengiz

  Adamec, Ladislav

  ‘advisers’, Soviet

  Afghanistan

  left-wing coup

  Soviet withdrawal

  Soviet invasion

  Afghanistan War

  AFL-CIO

  Aga Khan

  Ahmad Shah Massoud

  aircraft

  Boeing 747 passenger

  Boeing RC-135 reconnaissance

  Cessna 172B

  MiG-23 interceptor jet

  MiG-25 jet

  Mil 8 helicopters

  Sukhoi-15 interceptor

  Akhromeyev, Gen. (later Marshal) Sergei

  alcohol problem in USSR

  Amin, Hafizullah

  Amu Darya River, ‘Friendship Bridge’

  Anca, Dr Alexander

  Anders, Gen. Władysław

  Anderson, Frank

  Andropov, Yuri

  and Afghanistan

  as Brezhnev’s successor

  and Gorbachev

  and Poland

  and Pope John Paul

  convinced nuclear attack being mounted by US

  death of

  visits Stavropol

  Animal Farm

  Antelova, Dasa

  Anti-Totalitarian Forum, The

  Apostol, Gheorghe

  Arad, Romania

  Arbatov, Georgi

  ARD TV channel

  Ardeleanu, Ion

  Argument y Facti (weekly newspaper)

  Aristov, Boris

  armament production, Soviet

  Armenian earthquake

  arms limitation agreements

  artists

  Association of Free Democrats (Hungary)

  Atanasov, Georgi

  Austria

  Austrian border

  Austrian government

  Austrian Red Cross

  AVO (Államvédelmi Osztály - Hungarian State Security Authority)

  Axen, Hermann

  Babe, Liviu

  Babrak Karmal

  Bagram military airport

  Bahr, Egon

  Baker III, James

  Balakovo nuclear plant

  Balaton, Lake

  Balcerowicz, Leszek

  bananas, shipments of

  Banco Ambrosiano

  Bat, Batya

  Baum, Bruno

  BBC World Service

  Bearden, Milt

  Beatles, The

  Beijing

  Tiananmen Square demonstrations

  Belen island, Bulgaria

  Belene camp

  Belgrade

  Bendaáclav

  Berberyusz, Ewa

  Beria, Lavrenti

  Beriech Kommerzielle Koordinierung (Bureau of Commercial Co-ordination - Ko-Ko)

  Berlin

  Brandenburg Gate

  S-Bahn rail network

  U-Bahn metro system

  Berlin, East

  40th anniversary of GDR

  Alexanderplatz demonstration

  Britz district canal

  Communist Party HQ, Werderscher Markt

  crowds gather after new travel law announced

  demonstrations

  Friedrichshain church

  Gethsemane Church hunger strike

  Gorbachev visits

  International Press Centre, Mohrenstrasse

  Prenzlauer Berg district School of Fine Arts

  Stasi HQ, Normannenstrasse

  State Opera House

  Treptow district

  Berlin Wall

  Bornholmer Strasse gate

  Checkpoint Charlie

  GDR plans to ‘sell’

  Invalidenstrasse checkpoint

  Krenz determined it should stay

  opening

  ‘wall-jumpers’

  Beszélö (Speaker) magazine

  Biermann, Wolf

  Bil’ak, Vasil

  Black Sea

  Blandiana, Anna

  Bobu, Emil

  Boeru, Ionel

  Bohemia

  Bohley, Barbel

  Boldin, Valery

  Bologna, University of

  Bolshevik revolution (1917)

  Bonn

  Schloss Gymnich

  Bonner, Yelena

  border guards, Hungarian

  Border Guards Day

  Borila, Petre

  Borusewicz, Bogdan

  Brady, Nicholas

  Brandenburg Prison

  Brandescu, Dumitru

  Brandt, Willy

  Braov

  Red Star tractor factory

  Bratislava

  Breath (film)

  Brezhnev, Leonid

  and Afghanistan

  and Bulgaria

  declining health

  and disarmament

  and Helsinki Accords

  military expenses

  and Poland

  and Pope’s visit to Poland

  and Prague Spring

  succeeded by Andropov

  Brezhnev Doctrine

 
; Brokaw, Tom

  Brown, Irving

  Brucan, Alexandra Sidorovici

  Brucan, Silviu

  Bryukhanov, Viktor

  Brzezinski, Zbigniew

  Bucharest

  Arsenal Hill

  Calea Victorei

  Communist Party HQ

  energy rationing

  Ghencea cemetery

  Gorbachev visits

  Intercontinental Hotel

  Kiseleff district

  Municipal Hospital

  National Library

  Otopeni airport

  Palace Square

  People’s Palace

  riots and fighting

  Romanian TV station

  Turbomecanica power plant workers

  Unirii market

  University Square riots

  Uranus residential area

  ‘Victory of Socialism Avenue’

  Warsaw Pact summit (1989)

  Budapest

  15th of March demonstration

  Bush visits

  Central Budapest Prison

  demonstrations

  East German refugees in

  funeral of Kádár

  funeral of Nagy

  Heroes’ Square

  intellectuals

  Kerepesi cemetery

  Kossuth Square

  Ráko skeresztúr cemetery, Plot

  secret police

  tourism

  uprising (1956)

  Vaci utca shopping street

  Bujak, Zbigniew

  Bulgaria

  activists

  anti-Sovietism

  coup against Zhivkov

  demonstrations

  dissidents

  environmental problems

  ethnic cleansing

  food shortages

  foreign debt

  Mitterrand visits

  oil sales

  People’s Militia

  political prisoners

  ties with Russia

  Turks expelled

  Bulgarian Muslims

  Bulgarian state security service (Durzhavna Sigurnost)

  Bush, Barbara

  Bush, Billy

  Bush, George H.W.

  appointments to administration

  caution

  and Ceausescu

  convinces Jaruzelski to stand as president

  elected president

  and fall of Berlin Wall

  and Gorbachev

  Malta summit

  meets Jaruzelski

  meets Wałesa

  and nuclear weapons

  tour of Poland and Hungary

  Bush, Jeb

  alfa, Marián

  Caligula, Emperor

  Câmpeanu, Pavel

  Captain Beefheart

  Captive Mind, The

  Caramitru, Ion

  Cârlan, Dorin