Rolls-Royce
Roman Empire
Romania:
communist takeover
economy
establishment of Romanian state
ethnic German population
fall of Ceauşescu
and France
Hungarian minority
Jews
Kurdish nationalists’ summer schools
labour camps
‘Little Entente’
nationalism
Orthodox Church
peasantry
Soviet annexation of Bessarabia
territorial gains from Hungary
universities
Rome:
airport bombing (1985)
student population
Rome, Treaty of (1957)
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano:
banking reform
and Chinesewar
and Johnson
and Kennedy
and Keynes
and lying
New Deal
reputation
and Supreme Court
Yalta conference (1945)
Röpke, Wilhelm
Rostov
Rostow, Walt
Rotterdam
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Rover (automobile manufacturer)
Royal Dutch-Shell (oil company)
Royal Society
rubber
Rublev, Andrey
Rueff, Jacques
Ruhr
international authority
Ruhrgas
Ruijin
Rusk, Dean
Russell, Bertrand, 3rd Earl
Russell, Conrad, 5th Earl
Russia, Tsarist
Russia, post-Soviet
RussianWar (1917-23)
Russian Revolution (1917)
fortieth anniversary
Western views of
‘rust belt’
Rylands, George ‘Dadie’
Ryzhkov, Nikolay
Saarland
Sabanci dynasty
Sadat, Anwar
Saddam Hussein
Saigon:
American embassy
anti-American demonstrations
bombing of
fall of (1975)
French rule
refugee population
wartime squalor
St Anthony’s College, Oxford
St Louis, Missouri
St Petersburg (Leningrad)
Hermitage
Russian Museum
Soviet era slums
Zoo
Saint-Pulgent, Maryvonne de
Sakarya, battle of (1921)
Sakharov, Andrey
Saladin
Salisbury, Harrison
Salomon Brothers (bank)
Salonica
SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)
Saltén, Felix
Saltley Coke Depot
Salzburg Festival
Samara (Kuybyshev)
Samarkand
Samuelson, Paul
San Francisco
San Francisco Treaty (1951)
Sandys, Julian
Santiago, Chile
Catholic University
University of Chile
Santiago de Cuba
Sapieha, Cardinal Prince
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Saudi Arabia:
and Afghan war
and Iran
oil production
and Yom Kippur War (1973)
Savak (Iranian secret police)
Savings and Loans crisis (USA)
Saxony
Scargill, Arthur
Schacht, Hjalmar
Scheel, Walter
Schenectady, New York
Schiller, Karl
Schily, Otto
Schlesinger, James
Schleyer, Hanns-Martin
Schmidt, Helmut:
background and character
and Britain
and Carter
economic policy
and European Community
and Gierek
and Honecker
on the Left
Minister of Finances
Ostpolitik
Rambouillet summit (1975)
and Reagan administration
succeeds Brandt as Chancellor
Schoenberg, Arnold
Schreiberhau
Schuman, Robert
Schumpeter, Joseph
Scotland:
comparisons with Saxony
Conservative Party in
first recorded Scottish utterance
nationalism
Protestantism
referendum on independence (1979)
SDP (British Social Democratic Party)
‘Second Cold War’
Second World War:
bombing of Germany
British victories
German capitulation
Japanese surrender
Soviet victories
Victory Day (1945)
SED (East German Party of Socialist Unity)
Sédillot, René,
Le Coût de la Révolution française
Seeckt, Hans von
Seldon, Arthur
Sellers, Peter
Selyunin, Vasily
Semipalatinsk
Semyonov, Vladimir
Şener, Mahmut
Seoul
serfdom
Servan-Schreiber, Jean-Jacques
Seton-Watson, Hugh
Sèvres Protocol (1956)
Shah of Iran (Mohammad Reza Pahlavi)
fall of
Shakespeare, William
Shakhnazarov, Georgy
Shanghai
Shannon, Claude Elwood
Shanxi province
Shawcross, Hartley, Baron
Shcherbitsky, Vladimir
Sheehan, Neil
Sheffield
Sheffield
, HMS
Shelest, Petro
Shell (oil company)
Sherman, Sir Alfred
Shevardnadze, Edward
Shigemitsu, Mamoru
Shigeru, Yoshida
shipbuilding
Shultz, George
Siberia
gas pipeline
Sibiu
Sichuan province
Sicily
Siemens-Schuckert (corporation)
Sihanouk, King
Sihanoukville
Siirt
Šik, Ota
Sikhs
Silesia
Simenon, Georges
Simes, Dmitri
Singapore
single parents
Sino-Soviet split
Sinop
Sissons, Michael
Six Day War (1967)
Skidelsky, Robert, Baron
Sladkevičius, Vincentas
Slansky, Rudolf
Slater Walker Securities (bank)
slavery
Slovakia:
author’s imprisonment in
Catholic Church
Communist Party
Democratic Party
Hungarians in
Jews in
Lutheran Church
nationalism
and ‘Prague Spring’
relations with Czech lands
Second World War
Secret Service
Slovenia
Slump, Great (1930s)
Smiley, Xan
Smith, Adam
Smith, David
Smith, Frederick
Smithsonian agreement (on exchange rates; 1971)
smoking bans
Smoot-Hawley tariff
snoek (fish)
Snow, C. P., Baron
Snow, Edgar
Sobchak, Anatoly
Social Democratic Party (British; SDP)
Social Democrats (Austrian)
Social Democrats (Czechoslovak)
Social Democrats (German; SPD):
post-war occupied Germany
Weimar Republic
West Germany
Social Democrats (Hungarian)
Socialist Unity Party (East German; SED)
‘soft professions’
solar power
Solidarność (‘Solidarity’; Polish trade union)
Solomentsev, Mikhail
Solvay, Ernest
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
Somalia
Somoza, Anastasio
Sontag, Susan
Sopron
Sorbonne
Soros, George
SOS Racisme
South Africa
South Georgia
South Korea:
economic success
establishment of
shipbuilding
steel industry
wig exports
see also
Korean War
South Vietnam:
American investment
Army (ARVN)
communist takeover
corruption
Diem regime
establishment of
fall of Saigon (1975)
land reform failure
refugee population
see also
Vietnam War
Soutou, Georges-Henri
Souvarine, Boris
Soviet Union see USSR
Sozialmarktwirtschaft
(West German)
space programmes:
American
Soviet
Spain:
Civil War
Communist Party
empire
EU membership
health care
nationalism
Pinochet trial
POUM (Communist organization)
Spanish Armada
SPD see Social Democrats (German)
Speer, Albert
Spence, Jonathan
Spetsnaz
(Soviet ‘special forces’ troops)
Spiegel
,
Der
(magazine)
spies:
Czechoslovak
Soviet agents in Britain and USA
U
2
spy planes
in Vienna
sport:
in communist states
football hooliganism
Sputnik
Šrámek, Jan
‘stagflation’
Stakhanovism
Stalin, Joseph:
background
and Berlin blockade (1948-9)
and Brezhnev
and China
claims to scholarship
collectivization policy
comparisons with Genghiz Khan
cult of personality
and Czechoslovakia
death
education policy
and Germany
and Greece
and Hungary
Khruhschev’s denunciation of
and Korean War
in London
‘March Note’ (1952)
and Marshall
and Marshall Plan
Middle East ambitions
Moscow conference (1947)
and nationalism
and NATO
and Poland
Potsdam conference (1945)
purges
removal of corpse from Kremlin
russification programmes
secretary of Central Committee
seventieth birthday
show trials
and SpanishWar
Teheran conference (1943)
and Turkey
tyrannical leadership
use of alcohol
and Vietnam
Yalta conference (1945)
and Yugoslavia
Stalingrad
Standard Oil
Stanford University
business school
Stasi (East German state security)
Staszewski, Stefan
Stavisky scandal (1934)
Stavropol
StB (Czechoslovak security service)
steel industry:
Belgium
Britain
ECSC (European Coal and Steel Community)
France
Germany
Japan
Korea
Luxemburg
Poland
Turkey
USA
USSR
Steinbeck, John
Steiner, Max
Steiner, Zara
Stendhal
sterilization, enforced
Stern, Manfred
Stiglitz, Joseph
stock market crashes:
1929
1987
2008
Stockholm
Stockman, David
Stone, I. F.
Stone, Oliver
Stoph, Willi
Strasbourg
Strategic Defense Initiative (American; ‘Star Wars’)
Strauss, Franz Josef
Strong, Anna Louise
student demonstrations
student exchanges
student loans
Suez Canal
Yom Kippur War (1973)
Suez crisis (1956)
Sukarno, President of Indonesia
Sun Microsystems (corporation)
Sunderland
‘supplyside’ economics
Suslov, Mikhail
Sussex University
Suzdal
Svoboda, Ludvík
Swanson, Robert A.
Sweden:
automobile industry
and Finland
health care
and Kurdish nationalism
Lutheran Church
price and wage control
sterilization of Lapps
‘Swedish model’
taxation
trade with Germany
trade unions
Swindon
Switzerland
Sydney
Syria:
Egyptian-Syrian union
Kurdish population
Öcalan in
Soviet aid
Yom Kippur War (1973)
Szamuely, Tibor
Szasz, Thomas,
The Myth of Mental Illness
Szklarska Poręba
Tadzhikistan
Tadzhiks
Taiwan:
Chiang Kai-shek’s mausoleum
economic power
Kuomintang (Nationalist) government
land reforms
US relations with
Talbott, Strobe
Talebani, Celal
Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de
Tamerlane
Tanzania
Taraki, Nur Mohammed
Targowice, Convention of (1792)
Tarnovsky, A. A.
Tashkent
Tătărescu, Gheorghe
Tatars
Tatarstan
Taut, Bruno
Tawney, R. H.
Taylor, A. J.
English History
1914-1945
Taylor, Frederick Winslow
Taylorism
Taylor, Maxwell
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich
Teamsters (labour union)
Tebbit, Norman, Baron
Tefal (corporation)
Teheran conference (1943)
Teitelboim, Volodia
TeleCommunications Inc.
telephones
television:
in Britain
cable television
in Eastern Bloc
in France
in Germany
manufacture of sets
news reporting
and politics
Teller, Edward
Timişoara
Tennessee Valley Authority
terrorism:
Irish
in Italy
Kurdish
Palestinian
Rome and Vienna airport attacks (1985)
in West Germany
Tet offensive (1968)
Texaco (oil company)
Texas
TGWU (British Transport and General Workers Union)
Thatcher, Sir Denis
Thatcher, Margaret, Baroness:
animus against
background and character
on Berlin Wall
at Bicentenary celebrations in Paris
budget of 1981
andservice
combating of inflation
core beliefs
education policies
and EEC/EU
elected Conservative leader (1975)
Falklands War (1982)
and fall of communism
fall from power
foreign policy
general election victories; (1979); (1983)
and German reunification
and Gorbachev
international reputation