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demonstrations
Gewandhaus concert hall
mayor
Nikolaikirche
pollution
railway station
Lengsfeld, Vera
Lenin.I.
Leninakan, Armenia
Leninists
Lennon, John,
see also
John Lennon Peace Club
Leon, Nica
Leonhard, Wolfgang
Leuker, Pastor Leo
Libération
(newspaper)
Liebknecht, Karl
Ligachev, Yegor
Lithuania
dissidents in
Little Land
loans from the West,
see also individual countries’
‘foreign debt’
entries
Lomakin, Viktor
London
Ceauescu visits
Gorbachev visits
Waterloo Bridge
Lorenc, Gen. Alois
Lorenz, Siegfried
Lublin
Lublin, Catholic University of
Lucan, Matej
Lucas, Edward
Luceafrul
(newspaper)
Lukanov, Andrei
Lupescu, Magda
Lushev, Gen. Pyotr
Lutheran Church peace group
Lutheran pastors
Lux, Harry, Sylvia and Danny
Luxembourg, Rosa
McDonald, Larry P.
MacEachin, Douglas
McFarlane, Robert
Maclean, Donald
Magdalenka, Poland
Magdeburg
Maksimichev, Igor
Maléter, Pál
Malinowski, Roman
Malta summit (1989)
Maluan, Lt-Col. Vasile
Man of Iron
(film)
Man of Marble
(film)
Manescu, Manea
Mao Zedong
Mares, Lt-Col.
Markov, Georgi
Marx, Karl
Marxism-Leninism, principles of
März brothers
Massoud, Ahmad Shah
Masur, Kurt
Matlock, Jack
Maximichev, Igor
Maxwell, Robert
Mazowiecki, Tadeusz
Maul, Henryk
Medvedev, Vadim
Mehmet Ali Agca
Melinescu, Nick
Merkel, Chancellor Angela
Michnik, Adam
and the Church
and dissidents
and Gorbachev
and KOR
and Solidarity
Mielke, Erich
orders files to be destroyed
plans to oust Honecker
speech to Stasi
Milea, Gen. Vasile
Milewski, Jerzy
Militaru, Gen. Nicolae
military budget, cost of
military exercises
military production, Soviet industry geared to
Miłosz, Czesław
Mindszenty, Cardinal
Minev, Romania
Minotaur, The
Miodowicz, Alfred
missiles
Cruise intermediate-range
Pershing intermediate-range
SS-20 medium range nuclear
Stinger ground-to-air
Mittag, Günter
Mitterrand, François
Mladenov, Petar
Mlyná, Zden
Modrow, Hans
Mohammed Najibullah
Mohammed Taraki
Moiseyev, Gen. Mikhail
Möll, Col. Günter
Molotov, Vyacheslav
Money
(Polish film)
Moscow
see also
Kremlin, the
GUM department store
Lenin School
meeting of Warsaw Pact generals
Mitterrand visits
reaction to fall of Berlin Wall
Red Square,
see
Red Square, Moscow
St Basil’s Cathedral
Moscow State University
Mot, Petre
Mueller, Dr Matthias
Mujahideen
Musatov, Valeri
music, pop, in Czechoslovakia
Muslims, Bulgarian
Mutually Assured Destruction
Mzhavanadze, Vasily
Nagy, Gyula
Nagy, Imre
Nagy family
Nagymáros, Hungary
dam project
Najibullah, Mohammed
National Salvation Front (Romania)
nationalism
NATO
Nazis
Neagoe, Gen. Marin
Németh, Miklós
and Austrian border fence
and East German refugees
and Nagy’s funeral
Népszabadság
(newspaper)
Neues Deutschland
New Forum (East Germany)
New York
Ceauescus visit
Gorbachev visits
Governors Island
Times Square
New York Times
Nicaragua
Nicholas I, Tsar
Nixon, Richard
NKVD (secret police)
nomenklatura
political patronage system
Nor, Ferdinand
Noriega, Manuel
Norman, Sir Richard
Nowa Huta, Lenin Steelworks
NOWA Independent Publishing House
Nuclear Forces Treaty, Intermediate (1987)
nuclear missiles based in People’s Democracies
nuclear reactors, water-cooled RBMK
Nyers, Reszö
Ogarkov, Marshal Nikolai
Ogonyok
(news magazine)
oil sales
Olympic Games (1980)
Olympics, Winter (1984)
Operation Rose
Opletal, Jan
Orbán, Viktor
Orlando, Florida
Orlov, Yuri
Orwell, George
Orzechowski, Marian
Osipovich, Col. Gennadi
Özal, Turgut
Pacepa, Ion
Palach, Jan
Palme, Olof
Palmer, Mark
Pan-European Picnic
Panama
Papp, Bishop László
Paris
Ceauescu visits
Conference on Security and Co-operation summit (1989)
Left Bank
Pasternak, Boris
Paul VI , Pope
Punescu, Adrian
Pavlov, Gen. Vitali
Peasant Party (Poland)
Pkala, Lt. Leszek
Peking rallies
Pentagon
People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan
People’s Militia (Bulgaria)
People’s Militia (Czechoslovakia)
perestroika
(‘restructuring’)
Perle, Richard
Petrescu, Anna
Petrescu, Gheorghe
Petrisor, Nicolae
‘Philby’ espionage ring
Piekowska, Alina
Pietruszka, Col. Adam
Piotrowski, Capt. Grzegorz
Piteti, Romania
Pithart, Petr
Plastic People of the Universe, The (pop group)
Podkrepa (Bulgarian free trade union)
Pojarleff, Ionni
Poland
after Solidarity legalised
agreement for elections
aware of US/Vatican support for Solidarity
Bush visits
‘centres of special rehabilitation’
Council of National Salvation (WRONA)
described by Jean-Paul Sartre
difficult to control
economic crises
elections
factories strike (1976)
and Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
foreign debt
under Gierek
‘illegal’ newspapers
industrial conditions
industrial unrest (1980)
inflation
Lower House (Sejm)
martial law imposed (1981)
under martial law
martial law lifted (1983)
Mazowiecki elected Premier
occupation by Russian troops
and Pope John Paul
poverty
and presidency
presidential election
referendum
riots following price rises (1970)
Roman Catholic Church
Round Table talks
Sejm (Lower House)
Senate (Upper House)
Solidarity
Soviet invasion planned
strikes (1980)
strikes (1988)
support for military regime from Soviet Union
Upper House (Senate)
police, Polish riot (ZOMO)
police, secret
Bulgarian (Durzhavna Sigurnost)
Czech (Státní Bezpenost - StB)
East German,
see
Stasi
Hungarian
Polish (Sluba Bezpieczestw - SB)
Romanian (Securitate)
Polish Communist Party
Cement Group
Polish riot police (ZOMO)
political prisoners in Bulgaria
political prisoners in Romania
pollution
Polytechnic of Central London
Pomaks,
see
Muslims, Bulgarian
Pommert, Wilhelm
Ponomarev, Boris
Popa, Col. Gic
Popiełuszko, Father Jerzy
Popowo, Poland
Poppe, Gerd
Poppe, Jonas
Poppe, Ulrike
Postelnicu, Tudor
Powell, (Lord) Charles
Power of the Powerless, The
Pozoga, Władisław
Pozsgay, Imre
Prague
after fall of Berlin Wall
Czech National Theatre
demonstrations
GDR refugees in
general strike
Gorbachev visits
influenza
Kampa Park
Letná Park
Lobkovitz Palace (West German Embassy)
Lucerna shopping mall
Magic Lantern theatre
Národní Street
National Cemetery, Vyšehrad
‘Palach Week’ rallies
pollution
rallies to commemorate John Lennon’s death
SSM demonstration
Wenceslas Square
Prague Castle
Prague Spring (1968)
Pravda
Pravets, Bulgaria
Pripyat
Privolnoye, the Kuban
publications,
Samizdat
in Czechoslovakia
in Romania
purges
Pushkin, Aleksandr
Puzanov, Alexander
Pyjas, Stanisław
Pyongyang rallies
Radio Free Europe
Radom, Poland
Radom Tapes
Radomski, Aram
Rajkászló
father of
Rákosi, Mátyás
Rakowski, Mieczysław
and elections
Rat, Lt. Florian
Rathenow, Lutz
Reagan, Ronald
and Afghanistan
and Armenian earthquake
arms reduction moves
and Berlin Wall
CIA memos to
commitment to nuclear disarmament
and Gorbachev
and Korean Airlines flight
meets Pope
and the nuclear button
and Star Wars project
wants to talk with Russian leaders
Red Army
in Afghanistan
see also
Afghanistan
in East Germany
Fortieth Armyt Reconnaissance Division
and Hungarian Uprising
reduction in
withdrawal from Afghanistan
withdrawal from Hungary
Red Square, Moscow
Renneberg, Klaus-Peter
Repentance
Reykjavik summit (1986)
Reykowski, Dr Janusz
Rice, Condoleezza
Rijeka, Croatia
Rila monastery
Robotnik Wybrzea
(
The Coastal Worker
)
Rogowski, Capt. Marek
Roman, Petre
Roman, Walter
Roman Catholic Church in Poland
Romania
abortions forbidden
after fall of Berlin Wall
agriculture
army
Church
closed to outside world
demonstrations in
dictator’s birthday
dissidents
energy rationing
fighting
food rationing
football
foreign debt
and Hungarian border
Hungarian minority
industrial unrest
living standards
new government established
newspaper ban
orphanages
police state
political prisoners
Rational Nourishment Commission
relative independence
‘sale’ of political exiles
samizdat
publishing
secret police (Securitate)
‘systemisation’ policy
television
trial of Ceauescus
weapons trade with US
yoga in
Romanian Communist Party
Romanian German minority (Szelkers)
Romanian refugees in Hungary
Rome
Rosendahl, Rüdigger
Rosen, Moses
Rousova, Pavlina
Rudé Právo
newspaper
Rumsfeld, Donald
Ruse, Bulgaria
Russian armies,
see
Red Army
Russian Civil War
Rust, Matthias
Rusu, Lt. Marian
Ryabenko, Alexander
RYAN (
roketno yadernoye napadenie
) intelligence-gathering operation
Rybakov, Anatoli
Rybicka, Bozena
Ryzhkov, Nikolai
Saarland, the
Safranchuk, Vasily
Sagdeyev, Roald
Saher Gul
Saigon, US Embassy
Sakhalin Island
Sakharov, Andrei
Salang Highway
samizdat
publications
in Czechoslovakia

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