biography of, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
and communist propaganda
elections and political parties, 9.1, 9.2, 16.1
in Moscow, 9.1, 18.1, 18.2
persecutions and trials, 8.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4
in Poland, 4.1, 9.1, 11.1, 16.1, 18.1
and public celebrations, 10.1, 13.1, 13.2
and reconstruction of Warsaw, 14.1, 14.2
“bikiniarze movement”
Billig, Wilhelm, 8.1, 8.2
Blunt, Anthony
Bodnár, László
Bogensee
Bohemia
Bojko, Szymon
Bolków
Bolshevik Revolution: see Russian Revolution
Borejsza, Jerzy, 6.1, 11.1
Borhi, Laszlo
Borowski, Tadeusz
Bortnowska, Halina
Bottoni, Stefan
Brandenburg
Brandys, Kazimierz, 14.1, 15.1
Bratislava
Brecht, Bertolt, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 18.1
Lucullus (opera)
Breslau: see Wrocław
Britain (also Great Britain, U.K.)
British army, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 17.1
and East European communists, 9.1, 12.1, 17.1
and Polish government in London: see Polish government-in-exile
and Second World War, 1.1, 3.1
and Soviet Union, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 9.1
UK embassy
see also Cold War
Brno, 6.1, 13.1
Brodsky, Joseph (Iosif)
Brooke, Sir Alan, Field Marshal
Brotherly Aid (Bratni Pomoc, Polish student charitable organization)
Brôning, Elfriede, 3.1, 16.1, 18.1
Lästige Zeugen (book)
Brus, Włodzimierz, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Brystiger, Julia, 6.1, 11.1
Buber-Neumann, Margarete, 3.1, 3.2
Buchenwald, 5.1, 13.1, 17.1
Buchwitz, Otto
Budapest
destruction of (in wake of Second World War), 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 8.1
ethnic minorities and civil society organizations in, 6.1, 12.1
liberation of, 2.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1
and party members’ privileges
persecutions and arrests in, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 12.2
and political elections
and political opponents, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4
propaganda and public events in, 8.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 18.1
Soviet communists in, 7.1, 12.1
Soviet concentration camps in
Soviet revolution in
Budapest National Committee
Bug River (Poland’s eastern border after Second World War)
Bukovskii, Vladimir
Bulganin, General Nikolai
Bulgaria, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 11.1, 12.1, 14.1, 18.1, 18.2
Bulgarian communist party, 3.1, 9.1
Bulgarian Fatherland Front coalition
Burgess, Guy
Burke, Edmund
Bydgoszcz, 2.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 8.1
Byelkin, General Fyodor, 4.1, 12.1
Cairncross, John
“Cambridge Five”
Camus, Albert
Caritas (Catholic charity), 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 16.1
Central Committee of the Soviet communist party: see Soviet communist party
Central Party School
Chambers, Whittaker, 3.1, 12.1
China, People’s Republic of, 12.1, 13.1, 18.1
Chopin, Fryderyk Franciszek (celebrations in memory of)
Chopin Society (Poland)
Christian Endeavour (Entschieden fôr Christus, Evangelical youth group)
Churchill, Sir Winston
on Eastern European ethnic minorities
and “Iron Curtain”, 9.1, 11.1
and Poland, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 9.1
relations with Stalin
on Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1, 9.1
in wake of Second World War
on war reparations to Soviet Union
see also Tehran Conference; Yalta Conference
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), 12.1, 18.1, 18.2
Cold War
anti-Soviet sentiments during
beginning of, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 11.1
influence of
propaganda during
Combat Group against Inhumanity (West German human rights group)
Comecon (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance)
Cominform (Communist Information Bureau), 9.1, 11.1, 11.2
Comintern (Communist International), 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 8.1, 10.1
closing down of
Comintern School in Ufa, 3.1, 3.2, 8.1; see also Ufa
“Committee of Free Lawyers” (West German human rights group)
first Comintern training center (Moscow, 1952)
“Institute 101” (Comintern headquarters)
Connelly, John
Conquest, Robert
Cottbus
Count Széchenyi Association of War Veterans
Crimea
Csákberény
Cyrankiewicz, Józef, 9.1, 9.2
Czaplicki, Józef
Czechoslovak communist party, 5.1, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2, 12.1
Czechoslovakia
and civil society organizations, 11.1, 13.1, 14.1
and communist propaganda, 2.1, 7.1, 9.1
and East European communists, 3.1, 3.2
evictions of ethnic minorities, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5
and national economic system, 10.1, 18.1
Nazi occupation of
political persecutions in, 12.1, 12.2, 16.1
Soviet invasion of (1968)
in wake of Second World War, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 10.1
Człuchów
Debrecen, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 10.1
Department of Reparations (Eastern Germany)
Déry, Tibor
Dessau, Paul: Lucullus (opera)
Deutsche Rundfunk (Berlin radio station, also Reichsrundfunk), 2.1, 8.1
Deutsche Volkszeitung (German communist party’s newspaper)
Dilthey, Elizabeth
Dimitrov, Georgi, 3.1, 3.2, 10.1
Diósgyoőr
Dix, Otto
Djilas, Milovan
Doenitz, Admiral Karl
Dönhoff, Countess Marion, 6.1, 6.2
Dost, Deacon Herbert
Dresden, 1.1, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 18.1
Dukes, Paul
Dulles, Allen
Dulles, John Foster, 1.1, 18.1
Dunapentele: see Sztálinváros
Dunaújváros: see Sztálinváros
Duracz, Anna
Duranty, Walter
Dymschitz, Alexander, 14.1, 14.2
“On the Formalist Direction in German Art” (article)
Dzerzhinskaia, Zofia
Dzerzhinskii, Feliks
Dziś i Jutro (Today and Tomorrow, Catholic newspaper), 11.1, 16.1
East German radio, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 13.1, 13.2
East Germany (German Democratic Republic, GDR, or Deutsche Demokratische Republik, DDR)
and civil society, 7.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 13.6, 13.7, 16.1, 16.2
communist propaganda, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 14.1, 16.1
cultural activities and socialist cities, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2
and economic failure
Handels organisation (HO, also “free” shops)
as independent state
political and cultural opponents, 17.1, 17.2
political elections
and religious institutions, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
reparations imposed by Soviet Union
socialist reforms, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 11.1
Soviet mass imprisonments and persecutions in, 5.1, 12.1, 12.2
Soviet Military Administration in, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 13.1, 16.1
Soviet occupation of, 4.1, 4.2
“Where the Dog’s Buried” (cabaret performance)
East Prussia
Eckert, Edeltraude
Eden, Anthony
Eisenhower, General Dwight David
Eisenhôttenstadt: see Stalinstadt
Eisenstein, Sergei
Eisler, Hanns
Elbe (river, meeting of American and Red Armies)
Ełk
Eörsi, István
Erdei, Ferenc
Erfurt
Erzgebirge
Esch, Arno
Eulenspiegel: see Ulenspiegel
Ewing, Gordon
Fallóskút
Faludy, György, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1, 18.1
Far East (Russia)
Farkas, Mihaly, 3.1, 4.1, 12.1
Farkas, Vladimir (son of Mihaly Farkas)
Fedorowicz, Jacek, 16.1, 16.2, 18.1
Bim-Bom (cabaret group)
Fest, Ulrich, 10.1, 11.1
Field, Noel, 12.1, 18.1
Finkel, Stuart
Finland
Finn, Gerhard
First Belorussian Front, 2.1, 5.1
First Ukrainian Front
First World War, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 7.1, 14.1
France, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 5.2, 14.1, 14.2
Free German Youth (FDJ), 7.1, 9.1, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5
Free People: see Szabad Nép
“Free Territory of Trieste”
Freedom and Independence (Wolność i Niezawisłość [WiN]), 5.1, 6.1
French Committee of National Liberation
Friszke, Andrzej
“Fulton speech”: see “Iron Curtain”
Fôrnberg, Louis: “The Song of the Party” (“Das Lied der Partei”)
Fôrstenberg, 15.1, 15.2
Garasin, Rudolf, 4.1, 12.1, 12.2
Gass, Karl
Gati, Charles
Gazeta Ludowa (People’s Paper, Polish Peasants’ Party newspaper), 8.1, 9.1
Gdańsk (Danzig), 1.1, 1.2, 7.1, 10.1, 16.1
Gdynia, 6.1, 10.1
Geminder, Bedřich, 12.1, 12.2
Gericke, Martin
German Academy of Art, 14.1, 17.1
German armed forces (1935–45): see Wehrmacht
German Association of Fine Arts
German Central Education Administration (East Germany)
German Christian Democratic Union (CDU), 4.1, 7.1, 9.1
East Berlin CDU
German Christian Democratic Youth, 7.1, 9.1
German communist party (first KPD, then SED)
and communist propaganda, 6.1, 9.1
and economic reforms
founding of German Socialist Unity Party (SED)
German communists before Second World War, 2.1, 3.1
German communists during Second World War, 3.1, 3.2
and “New Course”, 18.1, 18.2
and security organs, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1; see also German Ministry for State Security
“The Song of the Party” (“Das Lied der Partei”)
and Walter Ulbricht, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 9.1, 9.2
war reparations and plundering in Germany, 2.1, 10.1
German Democratic Republic: see East Germany
German Department for “People’s Education” (Volksbildung)
German Economic Committee (Deutsche Wirtschaftskommission)
German Free Democratic Party
German Ministry for State Security (Stasi), 4.1, 12.1, 13.1, 15.1, 16.1
Aktion Pfeil (espionage operation)
German People’s Police (Volkspolizei, GDR police), 11.1, 18.1
German Social Democratic Party (SPD), 4.1, 9.1
Berlin SPD
German Socialist Unity Party: see German communist party
Germany (as political entity until 1945, then East Germany and West Germany)
Allied Control Council in Germany
concentration, labor and prison camps, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1, 11.1, 12.1, 17.1
German politics after First World War
German refugees, 6.1, 10.1, 10.2, 15.1, 17.1
Germany’s “K5” (Department K)
physical violence and mass deportations in, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1
Soviet occupation and division of, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1
see also Berlin; East Germany; Weimar Republic; West Germany
Gerő, Ernő, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 15.1, 18.1, 18.2
Gestapo, 2.1, 3.1, 12.1, 14.1, 16.1
Geyer, Hans-Joachim
Gheorghiu-Dej, Gheorghe
Gimes, Miklós, 18.1, 18.2
Gliwice, 2.1, 6.1, 8.1
Gneist, Gisela, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 17.1
Gniezno
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang (celebrations in memory of)
Goldzamt, Edmund
Gomułka, Władysław
and anti-Semitism
arrest and incarceration of, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
and Cominform
and elections in Poland, 9.1, 9.2
and land reform in Poland
and Polish communists, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 6.1, 16.1
rehabilitation of, 18.1, 18.2
Gorky, 4.1, 13.1
Görlitz
Göttler, Lászlóné
Gottwald, Klement, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2, 12.1, 18.1
Grabowski, Lucjan, 1.1, 5.1
Grand Order of Emericana
Great Britain: see Britain
“Great Terror”/“Great Purges” (1930s and 1940s), 11.1, 12.1; see also Stalin, Iosif
Gregory, Paul
“Grey Ranks”: see Polish scouting movement
Grodzieńska, Stefania
Gross, Jan, 1.1, 6.1
Grossman, Vasily
Grösz, József, 11.1, 11.2
Grotewohl, Otto, 4.1, 9.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1, 15.1, 18.1
Gruschka, Gerhard
Gulag system (also Soviet concentration camps), 3.1, 17.1
East European labor camps modeled on, 4.1, 5.1, 12.1
East Europeans sent to, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 9.1, 13.1, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1
mass deportations to, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1
release of prisoners from, 6.1, 11.1
Gyöngyös
Györ
Györffy College, 7.1, 18.1
Györgyey, Aladár
Haganah (Jewish paramilitary organization)
Hajdú-Gimes, Lily
Halle, 13.1, 18.1
Hamel, Johannes
Hegedôs, András, 7.1, 7.2, 10.1, 13.1, 18.1
Heiligenstadt
Heine, Heinrich
Heller, Ágnes
Hennecke, Adolf
Herf, Jeffrey
Hermann, Imre
Hernádi, Lajos
Heroes of Labour movement: see Stakhanovite movement
Herrnstadt, Rudolf, 2.1, 8.1, 18.1
Herzberg, Klemens
Hesse
Hiss, Alger, 1.1, 3.1, 12.1
Hitler, Adolf
death of, 2.1, 5.1, 8.1, 8.2
division and sovietization of Europe, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 5.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2; see also Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
emigres and opponents, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 9.1, 11.1, 12.1, 14.1
and ethnic cleansing
ideology of, 1.1, 1.2, 7.1, 14.1
see also Hitler Youth
Hitler-Stalin Pact (1939): see Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Hitler Youth, 1.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 13.1
Hlond, August, 11.1, 11.2
Holocaust, 1.1, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 16.1
Home Army (armed wing of Polish Resistance), 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 11.1
dissolution of, 5.1, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1
former members of, 12.1, 12.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
and “Kuibyshev gang”
and Polish government-in-exile, 4.1, 6.1
and USSR, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1
see also Lublin provisional government; Polish government-in-exile (London)
“Home
Army Youth”, 5.1, 7.1
Homo sovieticus (“new” breed of communist man), 7.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2
Honecker, Erich, 7.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
Hopkins, Harry
Horthy, Admiral Miklós, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2
Horvath, Elek, 15.1, 15.2
Horváth, Lajos
Horváth, Sándor, 15.1, 17.1
Humboldt University (East Berlin), 9.1, 13.1
Humer, Adam
Hungarian Academy for Theatre and Film Art
Hungarian Armistice Agreement
Hungarian Association of College Students
Hungarian Athletic Club
Hungarian communist party (MKP, also Hungarian Workers’ Party, MDP), 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 18.1
Hungarian Community
Hungarian Democratic Youth Organization (Madisz), 7.1, 7.2
Hungarian “directorate for public works” (KÖMI)
see also Gulag system (East European labor camps)
Hungarian Independence Party, 9.1, 9.2
Hungarian League of Working Youth (DISZ), 7.1, 15.1, 15.2, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3
Hungarian National Association of People’s Colleges (Nékosz), 7.1, 7.2, 16.1, 18.1
Hungarian National Youth Council
Hungarian Naval Association
Hungarian Peasants’ Party
Hungarian Press Agency
Hungarian Radio (also Magyar Radio), 8.1, 18.1
Hungarian Smallholders’ Party, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1
Kis Újság (Little Gazette, party’s newspaper), 5.1, 8.1
Hungarian Social Democratic Party (SZDP), 4.1, 4.2, 8.1, 9.1, 12.1
Hungarian State Security Agency (AVO), 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 12.1, 12.2
Hungarian Workers’ Party (MDP): see Hungarian communist party
Hungarian Writers’ Association
Irodalmi Újság (Literary Gazette, association’s newspaper), 18.1
Hungarian Youth movements, 7.1, 13.1, 13.2, 17.1
Hungary, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Allied Control Commission in, 1.1, 6.1, 7.1
Allied Control Council in, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1
communist propaganda in, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1
destruction and reparations after Second World War, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1
economic reforms, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5
election campaigns, 9.1, 11.1
eviction of ethnic minorities, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
internment camps in, 4.1, 5.1, 12.1
mass imprisonments and executions, 3.1, 5.1, 12.1, 12.2
and “New Course”, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4
occupation/invasion of, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 6.1
persecutions of civil society organizations, 12.1, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2
reconstruction and Soviet industrialization after Second World War, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2
and religious institutions, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 17.1
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