Index
Abakumov, Viktor
Abdullah, King of Jordan
Abercrombie, Sir Patrick
Abidjan
ABM (anti-ballistic missile) treaty (1972)
abortion
Abrams, Creighton
Acheson, Dean
actors, politics of
Adana
Adenauer, Konrad:
acceptance of division of Germany
and Berlin crisis of
diplomatic relations with USSR
and EEC
and Erhard
founding of Christian Democratic Union
and Franco-German relations
privatization policy
and Suez crisis
and universities
and welfare system
Adzhubey, Alexey
Afghanistan
AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations)
Aganbegyan, Abel
Ağca, Mehmet Alı
Agent Orange (herbicide)
Agitation and Propaganda, Department of (USSR)
Agnew, Spiro
Agrarian Party (Czechoslovak)
AIDS
Aitken, Jonathan
Aitmatov, Cingiz
Akhmatova, Anna
Alaska
Alaskan Pipeline
Albania
Albanians
Alevis
Algeria:
French rule
independence
nationalism
oil production
pieds noirs
Algerian war (1954-62)
Algiers
Aliev, Haydar
Allende, Salvador:
background and character
and Carter
election as president
international reputation
overthrow and death
reforms
speech to United Nations (1972)
‘Alliance for Progress’ (American plan for Latin America)
Alma Ata
Almeida, Juan
Alsthom-Atlantique (corporation)
Altamira, Carlos
Althusser, Louis
Altman, Nathan
Amalrik, Andrey
Amin, Hafizullah
Anatolia
GAP project
Anderson, Lindsay
Andics, Erzsébert
Andreotti, Giulio
Andropov, Yuri:
and Afghanistan
General Secretary
and Gorbachev
KGB head
nationalities policy
Angola
Ankara
Ankara College
Ankara University
Bilkent University
Çubuk reservoir
Middle East Technical University
Anna Comnena, Princess
Annan, Noel, Baron
Our Age
Antep
anti-alcohol campaign (USSR)
anti-Fascism
anti-semitism
anti-Zionism
Ap Bac, battle of (1963)
appeasement
Apple (corporation)
Aqaba, Gulf of
Aquinas, Thomas
Arab Legion
Arafat, Yasser
Aragon, Louis
Araucanian Indians
Arbatov, Georgy
Arbenz, Jacobo
Arendt, Hannah
Argentina
Falklands War (1982)
Arizona
Armenia
Armenians
ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam)
Assad, Hafiz
Assyrian Christians
Astor, David
Aswan Dam
AT&T (corporation)
Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal
Athens
atomic bombs:
American
British
espionage
Soviet
see also
nuclear weapons
Atomic Energy Commission
Atomium (Brussels)
Attali, Jacques
Auschwitz concentration camp
Australia
Austria:
army
author’s studies in
Catholic Church
Communist Party
cultural institutions
Dollfuss dictatorship
espionage in
Jewish transit centre
Marshall Plan aid
neutrality
post-war occupation zones
pre-First World War parliament
private companies
relations with Hungary
Social Democrats
Staatsvertrag
(state treaty; 1955)
and USSR
war criminals
Yugoslav territorial claims
Austrian school of economics
Austro-Hungarian empire
automobile industry:
Britain
France
Germany
Italy
Japan
Sweden
USA
AVO (Hungarian security police)
Aylwin, Patricio
Azerbaidjan
Azeri Turks
Aznavour, Charles
Baader, Andreas
Bacílek, Karol
Bacon, Robert,
Britain’s Economic Problem
Bad Godesberg
Baden
Baden-Baden
Baekeland, Leo
Baghdad Pact
Bagram airbase
Bahr, Egon
Bahrain
Bakelite
Baker, James
Baker, Kenneth, Baron Baker of Dorking
Baku
Congress of the Peoples of the East (1920)
Balfour Declaration (1917)
Balogh, Sándor
Balogh, Thomas, Baron
Baltic states
see also
Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania
Baltimore
Baluchis
Balzac, Honoré de
Bandung conference (1955)
Bank of England
Bank for International Settlements
banking crisis (2008-9)
Barcelona
Barchard, David
Bari
Barings Bank
Barkey, Henri
Barnett, Correlli
Barraclough, Geoffrey,
Origins of Modern Germany
Barthes, Roland
Bartley, Robert
Barzani, Mustafa
BASF (corporation)
Basle
Batista, Fulgencio
Bauer, Peter, Baron
Bavaria
Bay of Pigs invasion (1961)
Bayly, Sir Christopher
Bayonne
Bayreuth
BBC
Bearsden, Scotland
Beatles, the
Beckett, Samuel
Beduins
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Fidelio
Belgian Congo
Belgium:
coal and steel production
colonies
and EEC
and Kurdish nationalism
and Marshall Plan
nationalism
oil imports
Second World War
universities
see also
Benelux
Belgrano
(battleship)
Bell, Marie
Ben Bella, Ahmed
Benelux
Beneš, Edvard
Bengal
Bennett, Catherine
Bennett, William
Beria, Lavrenti
overthrow and execution
Berkeley, University of
Berlin:
blockade of 1948-9
bomb damage
crisis of 1961
introduction of
Deutsche Mark
in Western zone
Soviet occupation zone
wartime
see also
East Berlin; West Berlin
Berlin Wall:
building of
fall of
Berman, Jakub
Besançon, Alain
Bessarabia
Bessmertnykh, Aleksandr
Bevin, Ernest
Bichelonne, Jean
Bien Hoa airfield
Biermann, Wolf
Bierut, Bolesław
Biffen, John, Baron
Bilkent University
Bíngöl
biological warfare
biotechnology
Birmingham
Birmingham University
Bismarck, Otto von
Bissell, Richard
Bitlis
‘Bizonia’/‘Trizonia’ (Allied occupation zones in Germany)
Blackbourn, David
Blair, Tony
Blake, William
Blanning, Tim
Bloch, Ernst
Blunt, (Sir) Anthony
Blyukher, Vasily
BMW (automobile manufacturer)
‘boat people’:
Cambodian
Vietnamese
Bodleian Library, Oxford
Bogomolov, Oleg
Bohlen, Charles E.
Bohley, Bärbel
Böhm, Karl
Bokassa, Jean-Bédel
Bolivia
Bologna
Bolsheviks:
and bureaucracy
and China
Civil War
Congress of the Peoples of the East (1920)
lies of
Revolution
and science
Bond, James (fictional character)
Bonn
Borinage
Borland Software Corporation
Borodin, Mikhail
Boston
Bourgès-Maunoury, Maurice
BP (British Petroleum)
Bradlee, Ben
Braestrup, Peter
Brandt, Willy:
background and character
elected Chancellor
foreign minister
mayor of West Berlin
memoirs
Nobel Peace Prize
Ostpolitik
resignation
Braşov
Bratislava
author’s imprisonment in
Braudel, Fernand
Braun, Otto
Brazil
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
(film)
Brecht, Bertolt
Brentano, Lujo
Brescia
Brest-Litovsk
Bretherton, Russell
Bretton Woods conference (1944)
Bretton Woods system
end of
Triffin Dilemma
Brezhnev, Leonid:
and Afghanistan
and arms limitiation talks
background and character
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:
antiCommunist 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
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