reputation
as Roosevelt’s manager
use of Supreme Court
Vice-President
and Vietnam
withdraws from re-election campaign
Joliot-Curie, Irène
Jones, Aubrey
Jones, Jack
Jones, Therese
Jordan
Joseph, Keith, Baron
Juglar, Clement
June Days uprising (1848)
‘junk bonds’
K
Kabul
Kádár, János
Kafka, Franz, Amerika
Kahn, Philippe
Kaldor, Nicholas, Baron
Kaluga
Kamchatka
Kandahar
Kang Sheng
Kania, Stanisław
Kapitsa, Piotr
Kaplan, Karel
Kapor, Mitch
Karabük steel plant
Karaganda
Karajan, Herbert von
Karasar, Hasan Ali
Karmal, Babrak
Karman, Tibor
Karpacky, Kornel
Kashmir
Katowice
Katyń massacre (1940)
Kayseri
Kazakhstan
Kedourie, Elie
Keep, John
Kemal, Mustafa see Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal
Kemp, Jack
Kempner, Nan
Kennan, George
Kennedy, Edward
Kennedy, Jacqueline
Kennedy, John F.:
‘Alliance for Progress’ (plan for Latin America)
appearance, background and character
assassination
and Bay of Pigs invasion
and Berlin crisis of 1961
and Cuban crisis of 1962
economic policy
election as President
funeral
Inaugural address
and Macmillan
New Frontier
reputation
and Roosevelt
Vienna conference (1961)
and Vietnam
White House style
Kennedy, John F., Jr
Kennedy, Joseph
Kennedy, Robert
Kent State University shootings (1970)
Kerr, Clark
Keyder, Çağlar
Keynes, John Maynard, 1st Baron:
Galbraith and
on government spending
homosexuality
hopes for German bombing
on paper money
and Roosevelt
Keynesianism
KGB:
and coup of August 1991
and Cuban crisis of 1962
and dissidents
and Gorbachev
network of informers
relationship with Party
and revolutions of 1989
and war in Afghanistan
and Western anti-missile demonstrations see also Cheka
KHAD (Afghan secret police)
Khanin, G. I.
Khariton, Yuli
Khe Sanh, battle of (1968)
Khmer Rouge
Khomeini, Ayatollah
Khrushchev, Nikita:
agricultural reform
background and character
and Berlin crisis of 1961
and China
and Cuban crisis of 1962
cultural liberalization policies
and de-Stalinization of Soviet satellite states
defeat of old guard
denunciation of Stalin
and Eisenhower
and Hungarian uprising of 1956
megalomania
and Molotov
Moscow Party head
and nationalism
and Orthodox Church
overthrow of Beria
overthrown (1964)
‘peaceful coexistence’ doctrine
and Poland
political reforms
relations with China
relations with West
release of political prisoners
reputation and popularity
rise to power
row with Nixon over culture
at Stalin’s seventieth birthday
transfer of Crimea to Ukraine
20th Party Congress speech (1956)
Ukraine Party head
Vienna conference (1961)
Kiesinger, Kurt Georg
Kiev
Rosa Luxemburg knitwear factory
Killing Fields, The (film)
KimSung
King’s College, Cambridge
Kırbaşi
Kirikkale
Kirkpatrick, Jeane
Kisielewski, Stefan
Kissinger, Henry:
background and character
and Chile
and Cyprus
and EEC
and Helskinki conference (1975)
and Middle East
military adviser to Kennedy
and OPEC
and ‘Pentagon Papers’
reputation
and SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)
and Vietnam
Koç, Vehbi
Koestler, Arthur
Kohl, Helmut
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Kołakowski, Leszek
Kolko, Gabriel
Kolyma
Komer, Robert W.
Konya
Kopecký, Václav
Korčula
Korea
division see also North Korea; South Korea
Korean War
Korngold, Erich
Korolev, Sergey
Kosovo
Kosygin, Alexey
Kovács, László
Kovalev, Ivan
Kraus, Karl
Kravchuk, Leonid
Kreisky, Bruno
Kremlin
Mausoleum
Krenz, Egon
Kriegel, Annie
Krol, Cardinal John
Kruchina, Nikolay
Krupp (corporation)
Kuklinski, Ryszard
Kulakov, Fyodor
Kulikov, Viktor
Kun, Béla
Kunayev, Dinmukhamed
Kundera, Milan
Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalists)
Kurchatov, Igor
Kurds
Kuroń, Jacek
Kuwait
Kuybyshev (Samara)
L
labour camps (Communist)
Labour Party (British):
1945 government
1951 election defeat
1970 election defeat
1983 election defeat
Callaghan government
and miners’ strike
Wilson government
Lacouture, Jean
Lady Chatterley’s Lover obscenity trial
Lafontaine, Oskar
Laidler, David
Laing, R.., Sanity, Madness and the Family
Lam Son operation (1971)
Landau, Lev
Lang, Fritz
Lang, Jack
Lansky, Meyer and Jack
Laos
Lapps, sterilization of
Lasch, Christopher
Lasky, Melvin
Lasky, Victor
Lattimore, Owen
Latvia
Lawrence, D. H.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover trial
Lawrence, Prust (stockbrokers)
Lawson, Nigel, Baron Lawson of Blaby:
Chancellor of the Exchequer
junior minister
Secretary of State for Energy
Lazare, Christopher
Leach, Sir Henry
Lebanon
Lebedev, Alexandr
Ledeen, Michael
Léger, Fernand
Leipzig
Lend-Lease aid
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich:
and bureaucracy
commissariat for culture
corpse
economic reform
and Germany
Khrushchev and
on left-wing ‘infantilism’
Maoism and
and Revolution
Leningrad (St Petersburg)
Hermitage
Russian Museum
Soviet-era slums
Zoo
Leo, Pope
Leontiev, Konstantin
Lewis, Michael
Liberal Democrats (German)
Liberal Party (British)
Liberty ships
Libya:
British bases
coup of 1969
under Gaddafi
oil production
Lieven, Alexander
Ligachev, Yegor
Lin Biao
Lindsay, John
Lithuania