war in Kashmir
Palermo
Palestine:
British Mandate
partition
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
Palestinians
Palme, Olof
Panama
Panmunjom
papacy
Papandreou, Andreas
Paris:
1930s
1960s
Bibliothèque Nationale
bourgeoisie
Centre Beaubourg
Eiffel Tower
financial institutions
Louvre museum
metro
Musée’Orsay
Palais de Chaillot
post-war rationing
property prices
revolution of 1848
suburban tower blocks
Paris Commune
Paris Peace accords (1973)
Paris Peace conference (1947)
Paris summit (1960)
Parsifal (opera)
Partisan Review
Pasternak, Boris
Pathans
Patten, Chris, Baron Patten of Barnes
Patti, Adelina
Pavlov, Georgy
Pavlovsky, General Ivan
PDK (Kurdistan Democratic Party)
Pearl Harbor
Peasant Party (Hungarian)
peasantry
Chile
China
Cuba
Czechoslovakia
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Italy
Poland
Romania
Russia / USSR
Turkey
Vietnam
Peck, Gregory
Pei, I. M.
Peking
PEN club
Peng Pai
Penguin (publishers)
penicillin
Penn Central railway
‘Pentagon Papers’
People’s Liberation Army see Red Army (Chinese)
perestroyka
Perkins, Thomas
Perle, Richard
Persepolis
Peter the Great
Petőfi, Sandor
petrochemicals industries
Pflimlin, Pierre
Philadelphia
Philby, Kim
Philipe, Gérard
Philippines
Phillips, Alban William
Phillips Curve
Phillips, Melanie
Phnom Penh
Phoenix, Arizona
Piaf, Édith
Picasso, Pablo
Pieck, Walter
pieds noirs
Pill, contraceptive
Pinay, Antoine
Piñera, José
Pinochet, Augusto
‘Pinochet solution’
Pinter, Harold
Pipes, Richard
Piscator, Erwin
Pitsunda
PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party)
Platts-Mills, John
Playboy (magazine)
Plaza Agreement (1985)
Pleiku
Pleven, René
PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization)
Plojhar, Mgr Josef
Plumb, Sir John
plutonium
Plyushch, Leonid
Podolia
Poindexter, John
Poitiers
Pol Pot
Poland:
agricultural collectivization
anti-semitism
anti-Soviet demonstrations
aristocracy
Catholic Church
coal industry
collapse of communism
Communist Party
communist takeover
Convention of Targowice (1792)
emigrants to Germany
ethnic German population
and France
under Gierek
under Gomułka
inflation
intelligentsia
Jews in
and Khrushchev’s relaxation attempts
and Marshall Plan
martial law (1981-2)
‘modernization’
oil money invested in
peasantry
relations with USSR
relations with West Germany
Second World War
Solidarność (‘Solidarity’)
Stalinization
steel industry
territorial losses
trade unions
UB (secret police)
Ukrainians in
universities
Warsaw Uprising (1944)
WRON (national security council)
Polaris (missile)
Poll Tax (Britain)
Pollitt, Brian
Pomerania
Pompidou, Georges
Ponomarev, Boris
Ponzi schemes
Poos, Jacques
population growth
collapse of
Porsche, Ferdinand
Port Said
Port Talbot
Port-au-Prince
Portugal
Potsdam
Potsdam conference (1945)
POUM (Spanish anarchist organization)
Powell, Charles, Baron
Poznan
Pozsgay, Imre
Prague:
architecture
Communists’ organized discontent
Czernin Palace
Kinsky Palace
museum of security police
revolution of 1989
Smichov
Stalinization
undamaged by war
working class
‘Prague Spring’
Prats, Carlos
Pravda (newspaper)
Prebisch, Raúl
Presley, Elvis
Preuves (magazine)
Primakov, Yevgeney
Prisender, Edgar
privatization of industry and services:
Britain
Chile
West Germany
prostitution
Protestant churches:
and economic development
in Germany
in Hungary
missionaries in China
Thirty Years War
see also Calvinist Church; Lutheran Church
Prussia
PUK (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan)
Punjab
‘pursuit of happiness’
Pusan
Pushkin, Alexander
‘Pushtunistan’
Putin, Vladimir
Q
Quang Tri (US combat base)
Queen Elizabeth, RMS
Quemoy islands
Quennell, Peter
R
Raab, Julius
radar
Radio Urumchi
Rákosi, Mátyás
Rakowski, Mieczysław
Rambouillet summit (1975)
Ramsay, Douglas
Rangel, Charles
Rangoon
Rapallo, Treaty of (1922)
Rasputin, Valentin
rationing:
Britain
East Germany
France
Ravenscraig steel works
Reader’s Digest (magazine)
Reagan, Nancy
Reagan, Ronald:
background and character
and Ceauşescu
and collapse of communism
core beliefs
defence policy
economic policy
election as President (1980); (1984)
enemies of
on failure of Johnson’s Great Society
and Goldwater campaign
Governor of California
Iran-Contra affair
marriages
oratory skills
and Poland
popularity
relationship with Margaret Thatcher
retirement
Savings and Loans crisis
‘The Speech’ (1980)
Strategic Defense Initiative (‘Star Wars’)
and universities
visits Britain
work regimen and leadership style
Récsk
Red Army (Chinese; ‘People’s Liberation Army’)
Red Army (Soviet):
atrocities committed by
conquering of eastern and central Europe
Second World War casualties
Red Army Faction
Red Brigades
Redford, Robert
Reece, Sir Gordon
Rees-Mogg, William, Baron
‘Reg Q’ (American interest rate regulation)
Regan, Donald
Reich, Robert
Reider, Jonathan