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The Atlantic and Its Enemies

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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

 

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