Read The Red Flag: A History of Communism Online
Authors: David Priestland
modernization, American,
385
Mondlane, Eduardo,
397
Mosinee, staged Communist occupation of,
227–8
MPLA (
Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola
),
397–8
Mujahedin, US support for,
530–31
multi-party elections,
543–4
music, rock,
448–50
Nagy, Imre,
332
nationalism
Africa,
397–8
Asia,
237
in China,
247–8
as corroding the USSR,
548
feelings of in USSR during Second World War,
206
Marxist responses to,
58–9
Palestinian,
471
policy towards in 1930s USSR,
159–61
and Romania,
406–8
in Soviet bloc,
548
tension with Communists,
377
Nazi takeover of Germany in 1933,
189
Communist adaptations to,
561–6
in Eastern Europe,
559–60
failure in Russia,
560–61
and failure of Communism,
557–8
failure of Lehman Brothers,
570
Third Way,
559
Nepal,
567
Neruda, Pablo,
198
New Left thinkers,
458–9
Nguyen Tat Thanh,
234–5
see also
Ho Chi Minh
Nicholas II, Tsar, coronation,
63
1960s
strength and variety of communism,
454
Nkrumah, Kwame,
394
Non-Aligned Movement, founding of,
375
North Korea,
267–9
High Stalinist policies,
409
military model in everyday life,
411
retention of hierarchical order,
410–11
retention of Marxist-Leninist ideology,
565
self-reliance philosophy,
410
Northern Expedition of Chiang Kaishek,
248
Not by Bread Alone
(Dudintsev),
339–41
Notes from the Underground
(Dostoyevsky),
68–9
Novocherkassk strike,
346–7
Oath of the Horatii, The
(David),
4–5
October
(Eisenstein),
132–4
October Manifesto,
78
One-Dimensional Man
(Marcuse),
457
Orange Alternative,
542–3
Orwell, George,
200–201
Osterroth, Nikolaus,
47–8
Owen, Robert,
21–2
Palestine, nationalist movement,
471
Papu, Edgar,
404
Paris
exposition 1937,
182–4
imagined exposition after Second World War,
211
Paris Commune of 1871,
37
Party Card
(Pyrev),
174–5
paternalism under Stalin,
162–5
paternalistic socialism,
430
Patricide
(Qazbegi),
136
patriotism, Soviet,
159–61
peasants
Chinese, revolutionary role for,
252–3
as difficult to mobilize in China,
263
guerrilla movements,
472–3
Russian: Bolsheviks as lesser evil for than Whites,
97
; exploitation of,
151–5
; hostility to Soviet regime,
171–2
; Stalinist regime’s compromises with,
156
‘People or Monsters’ reportage piece,
503–4
People’s Republic of China
foundation of,
266–7
see also
China
‘People’s Will’, Russia,
70
Pepetela,
395
permanent revolution, theory of,
34
personal relationships, time available for under Communism,
441–2
Peru,
566–7
Petersburg
(Bely),
80–81
Philippines,
271
Pinochet, General Augusto,
475
Pioneer Palace,
315–16
Plekhanov, Georgii,
72
Pol Pot,
489–95
Poland
1989 compared to previous revolutionary years,
546
banks, investment by,
432–3
Catholic Church in,
518–19
commitment to the collective,
446
debt crises,
524–5
multi-party elections,
543–4
opinions on socialism in 1980s,
511
Orange Alternative,
542–3
Poznań riots,
333
reforms in,
333–4
Solidarity,
525
white- and blue-collar workers,
517
worker–intelligensia alliance,
518–19
worker protests,
431
pop music,
448–50
Popular Front
Bulgaria,
213
in Central and Eastern Europe,
211–19
crises of,
199–200
Czechs,
209–10
destruction of,
225–7
France,
192–3
governments,
184–5
against Nazism,
207–8
Soviet policy towards,
191–2
Stalin as supporter of,
210
Togliatti as supporter,
208–9
Port Arthur,
77
Portugal, Carnation Revolution,
475–6
Potemkin, Leonid,
167–8
poverty in the USSR,
276–7
Poznań riots,
333
Prague Spring,
425–8
Prieur de la Côte-d-Or, Claude-Antoine,
11
Proletkults,
98
proletarianization,
144–5
Prometheanism,
xxi–xxiv
protochronism,
404
Proudhon, Pierre Joseph,
21
Provisional Government, Russia,
82–3
Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA),
465
purges,
144–5
in 1930s,
149
Eastern Europe,
289–90
ethnic, during Second World War,
207
rectification in China,
259–61
Putin, Vladimir,
560–61
Pye, Lucien,
264
Pyrev, Ivan,
174–5
Qazbegi, Aleksandr,
136
radical Marxism,
xxiv–xxv
Reagan, Ronald
change in approach to USSR from 1984,
536