and Poland
and Pope’s visit to Poland
and Prague Spring
succeeded by Andropov
Brezhnev Doctrine
Brokaw, Tom
Brown, Irving
Brucan, Alexandra Sidorovici
Brucan, Silviu
Bryukhanov, Viktor
Brzezinski, Zbigniew
Bucharest
Arsenal Hill
Calea Victorei
Communist Party HQ
energy rationing
Ghencea cemetery
Gorbachev visits
Intercontinental Hotel
Kiseleff district
Municipal Hospital
National Library
Otopeni airport
Palace Square
People’s Palace
riots and fighting
Romanian TV station
Turbomecanica power plant workers
Unirii market
University Square riots
Uranus residential area
‘Victory of Socialism Avenue’
Warsaw Pact summit (1989)
Budapest
15th of March demonstration
Bush visits
Central Budapest Prison
demonstrations
East German refugees in
funeral of Kádár
funeral of Nagy
Heroes’ Square
intellectuals
Kerepesi cemetery
Kossuth Square
Ráko skeresztúr cemetery, Plot
secret police
tourism
uprising (1956)
Vaci utca shopping street
Bujak, Zbigniew
Bulgaria
activists
anti-Sovietism
coup against Zhivkov
demonstrations
dissidents
environmental problems
ethnic cleansing
food shortages
foreign debt
Mitterrand visits
oil sales
People’s Militia
political prisoners
ties with Russia
Turks expelled
Bulgarian Muslims
Bulgarian state security service (Durzhavna Sigurnost)
Bush, Barbara
Bush, Billy
Bush, George H.W.
appointments to administration
caution
and Ceausescu
convinces Jaruzelski to stand as president
elected president
and fall of Berlin Wall
and Gorbachev
Malta summit
meets Jaruzelski
meets Wałesa
and nuclear weapons
tour of Poland and Hungary
Bush, Jeb
alfa, Marián
Caligula, Emperor
Câmpeanu, Pavel
Captain Beefheart
Captive Mind, The
Caramitru, Ion
Cârlan, Dorin
arnogursk, Ján
Carol II , King of Romania
Carter, Jimmy
Cartier
Casaroli, Cardinal Agostino
Casey, William
Castro, Fidel
Catholic Church,
see also
Church, the
Caucasus, north
Ceauescu, Alexandra
Ceauescu, Andrut
Ceauescu (nee Petrescu), Elena
at Bucharest rally
children
craving for honours
escapes from Party HQ
getaway attempt
and Gorbachev ‘s visit
meets and marries Nicolae
as Nicolae’s adviser
and People’s Palace
and Timioara demonstration
trial
under arrest
visits Cartier in New York
Ceauescu, Florea
Ceauescu, Ilie
Ceauescu (née Borila), Iordana
Ceauscu, Marian
Ceauescu, Nicolae
admiration for Stalin
announces repayment of foreign debt
biographies
and Brucan
campaign against yoga
dream of increasing population
early life
economic policy
escapes from Party HQ
and Elena
and exports
family
fears of a coup
getaway attempt
and Gorbachev
Gorbachev’s views on
holed up in Party HQ
and Hungarians
and Iliescu
image abroad
independent-minded
and industrial unrest
‘Letter of the Six’
oil consumption reduction plan
and People’s Palace
plot to overthrow
and Prague Spring
rally in Bucharest
re-elected as Party leader
rise to leadership of Communist Party
and shooting of Milea
suffers from diabetes
‘systemisation’ policy
television news items
telexes Soviet Foreign Ministry to intervene in Poland
and Timioara demonstration
trial
under arrest
visits China
visits Iran
visits London
visits North Korea
visits Paris
visits US
Ceauescu, Lt-Gen Nicolae Andruta
Ceauescu, Nicu
Ceauescu, Valentin
Ceauescu, Zoia
Charter
Chazov, Dr Yevgeni
Chebrikov, Viktor
Cheka (secret police)
Cheney, Dick
Chernenko, Konstantin
death
Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster
attempts to cool reactor
cover-up
design faults
evacuation after
and Gorbachev
jail sentences following
press coverage
radioactive cloud
Chernyaev, Anatoli
Children of Arbat
China, demonstrations in
Chmielewski, Lt. Waldemar
Cho‘oupek, Bohuslav
Chojecki, Mirek
Chun Byung-in, Capt.
Church, the,
see also
Catholic Church
in East Germany
in Poland
in Romania
Churchill, Winston: ‘Iron Curtain’ speech
CIA
and Able Archer 83 exercise
and Afghanistan
and Chernenko
and fall of Berlin Wall
‘the Bleeders’
supports Solidarity
television signal interruption device
view of Soviet Union
Cibin, Camillo
Ciosek, Stanislaw
Citibank
Civic Forum (Czechoslovakia)
civil rights, campaigns for
Club for the Support of Perestroika and Glasnost (Bulgaria)
Cluj, Romania
CNN
Cold War
COMECON (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance)
Commentary
magazine
Committee for Historical Justice (Hungary)
communism
Communist Party
advancement in
censors
Czech
East German
discipline
and Gorbachev
Hungarian
plan for economy
rewards for members
Romanian
Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE)
Congress of People’s Deputies
consumer goods
Corciovei, Mircea
Cornea, Doina
corruption
Cossacks
Crimea, the
Crowe, Adm. William
Csilla, Baroness von Boeselager
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cumpnau, Ion
Curia
Cywiski, Bohdan
Czech Communist Party
Czech secret police (Státní Bezpeènost - StB)
Czech Writers’ Union
Czechoslovakia
against reforms
border with GDR reopened
broadcasting station
and Danube dams project
demonstrations
drops ‘People’s Republic’ label
GDR refugees
Gorbachev tours
Human Rights Day
improvements after World War Two
nuclear missiles
‘Palach Week’ rallies
People’s Militia
plot to oust Husák
pollution
pop music
Prague Spring (1968) purges
religion
samizdat
literature
television
‘Velvet Revolution’
Danube Bend
Danube Circle group
Danube dams project
Davis, John
Deaver, Michael
Deca, Dr Nicolae
Dementsev, Vladimir
Democracy Now civil rights group (East Germany)
Democratic Forum (Hungary)
Democratic League for Human Rights (Bulgaria)
Democratic Party (Poland)
Deng Xiaoping
deterrence, theory of
Deutsche Handelsbank
Deutsche Welle Radio
Die Leipziger Volkszeitung
Dienstbier, Jií
Dierhagen, Thuringia
Dimitrov, Georgi
Dinescu, Mircea
disarmament talks
dissidents
in Bulgaria
dealing with
dislike for term
in Georgia
in Hungary
in Latvia
in Lithuania
in Romania
Dobrynin, Anatoli
Doctor Zhivago
Dohlus, Horst
Donáth, Ferenc
Donea, Adrian
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Draská, Drahomíra
Dresden
Dubek, Alexander
in the ‘Velvet Revolution’
Dubiski, Krzysztof
Dukakis, Michael
Dunaújváros steel plant and town
Dürrenmatt, Friedrich
Dvoák, Antonin
Dyatlov, Anatoli
Dyulgerov, Nikolai
Dzhurov, Dobri
Eagleburger, Lawrence
East Germany,
see
German Democratic Republic
Eastern Bloc countries,
see also entries for individual countries
as drain on Soviet economy
in the early
foreign debt
leaders told to assume greater responsibility
‘liberated’ by Russian troops
post-war life
Soviet ‘advisers’
Soviet Union sets down non-intervention policy
Ecoglasnost
economic Plan
Ehrensperger, Günter
Eigenfeld, Frank
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Elizabeth II , Queen
Ensor, David
Eppelmann, Father Rainer
Estier, Claude
European Community
Falin, Valentin
farms, collective
favours system
film, Soviet, renaissance in
Fischer, Oskar
Fischer, Werner
Fiszbach, Tadeusz
flags, national, changes in
Fodorova, Sarah
Fojtik, Jan
Fomin, Nikolai
Ford, Gerald
Foros, Crimea
Forsmark nuclear power plant
France, Gorbachevs’ holiday in
Frank, Josef
Frankfurter Rundschau
newspaper
Frasyniuk, Władisław
Freudenberg, Winfried
Friedrichs, Hans Joachim
Führer, Pastor Christian
Fulton, Missouri
Fyodorov, Gen. Vladilen
Gabe‘ikovo, Czechoslovakia
Gabrielescu, Valentin
Gamsakhurdia, Zviad
Garton Ash, Timothy
Gates, Robert
Gaudian, Christian
Gazeta Wyborcza
(Solidarity newspaper)
Gdak
Bush visits
martial law imposed (1981)
Monopol Hotel
Pilotów Street
riots (1970)
St Brigid’s Church
Wałsa’s home
workers move to
Zaspa suburb
Gdask, Lenin Shipyard
after martial law imposed
Kalugin’s visit
living conditions for workers
ship explosion
strike (1980)
Gdask Accords
Gdynia, factories strike in (1980)
Gebert, Konstanty
Gehlert, Lt-Gen. Siegfried
Geneva Accords
Geneva summit (1985)
Geneva talks on missile reductions (1983)
Geneva talks on Afghanistan (1987)
Genscher, Hans Dietrich
Gerasimov, Gennadi
Geremek, Bronisław
German Democratic Republic (East Germany)
40th anniversary
army
availability of Western media
Berlin Wall opened by mistake
borders
censorship
Church
communism collapses
Communist Party
demonstrations
dire financial state
ending isolation
files on all citizens
foreign debt
fruit shortages
government replaced
human trafficking
Hungary as ‘holiday’ destination
loan repayments
Miss GDR beauty contests
municipal elections
as nuclear missile base
opposition
peace groups
plan to ‘sell’ Berlin Wall
pollution
recognised by West as a country
and reforms
refugees
refugees going to Hungary
religious opposition
and Soviet army
Stasi (secret police),
see
Stasi
as success story of socialist bloc