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:
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, Fideclass="underline"
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
in Poland
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