The haunted land by Tina Rosenberg

Author:Tina Rosenberg
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-communism -- Europe, Eastern, Political persecution -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century, Europe, Eastern -- History -- 1989-
ISBN: 0679744991
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1995-01-11T16:00:00+00:00

"About the Cult of Personality and ItsConsequences" (Khrushchev),150

Adenauer, Konrad, 311, 313

Afghanistan, 128, 186, 207

Akhmatova, Anna, 89

Albania, xx, 108, 400, 402, 405

Albrecht, Hans, 332

Allen, Richard, 205

Allende, Salvador, 406

Almeyda, Clodomiro, 330

Alner, Juraj, 114-15

Aly, Gotz, 319

American Federation of

Labor-Congress of IndustrialOrganizations (AFL-CIO), 209

Amin, Idi, 353

Amnesty International, 352

Anders, Wiadyslaw, 135

Anderson, Sascha, 373

Andrews, Nicholas, 209-10

Andropov, Yuri, 190, 191-92,195-96,215

anticommunism, xvi-xvii, 405-7

Antifas, 306-7

Anti-Fascist Protective Rampart, seeBerlin Wall

Arendt, Hannah, 350

Argentina, xix, xx

Aristov, Boris, 211

Ash, Timothy Garton, 33

Attlee, Clement, 8

authoritarianism, 399Aylwin, Patricio, 352

Bacinsky, Stefan, 103-4Barcikowski, Kazimierz, 217Barczyk, Kazimierz, 198Bartuska, Vaclav, 86, 88, 105-6, 120,

409Basta, Jaroslav, 74-75, 88, 91, 409Behnke, Klaus, 299, 301, 389Benda, Vaclav, 70, 106, 112-13, 116,

409Benes, Edvard, 8Berliner Zeitung, 266Berling, Zygmunt, 135, 137, 139, 140Berlin Wall, 261-70

border guards for, 271-72, 280-89,340-48

Border Law and, 285-89

escapes over, 269-71Berlin Wall shootings, 261-69,

271-76, 340-48Berufsverbot, 326Betts, Wolfgang, 326Bielecki, Czeslaw, 234-35Biermann, Wolf, 373Biysk, 133-35Black Madonna, 161blackmail, 50-51, 67-68Bohley, Barbel, 304, 382Bohme, Ibraham, 372Bolivia, xix

428

Index

Bolsheviks, xviii

Bonner, Elena, 387

Borchard, Christian, 384-85

Border Law, East German, 285-89

Borges, Jorge Luis, 305

Bormann, Martin, 350

Bossi, Rolf, 267, 287

Bottger, Bernard, 271

Brandt, Willy, 269, 290

Bratinka, Pavel, 93

Brautigam, Hansgeorg, 331

Brazil, xix

Brezhnev, Leonid, 55, 128, 185,

190-91,215Brezhnev Doctrine, 20Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 146, 187-88Brzuzy, Ryszard, 113Buchenwald, 316Buchholz, Erich, 273, 277Buchholz, Irmgaard, 277Bujak, Zbigniew, 163, 197, 234Bulgaria, xx-xxi, 120Bush, George, 90, 116-17Byelorussia, 131, 132

capitalism:

Czech poll of 1968 on, 18fascism and, 8-9Carter, Jimmy, 160, 187, 205Casey, William, 205, 206, 209Catholic Church, 30in Poland, 144, 149-50, 160, 163Solidarity and, 163Cedok, 36Central Intelligence Agency, U.S.

(CIA), 51, 182, 204-8Cernak, Ludvik, 82Cesky Dennik, 100-101Chaines et le Refuge, Les, (Jaruzelski),

129Charter 77, xxi, 4, 27, 29, 33, 44, 45,

52,74Checkpoint Charlie Museum, 270,

281,385-86Chernenko, Konstantin, 211Chernobyl nuclear accident, 230Chile, xix, xx, 328, 330, 332China, 188

Churchill, Winston, xv, 8CIA (Central Intelligence Agency,

U.S.), 51, 182,204-8Cibulka, Petr, 106-7, 110, 112, 116,

117-19,234-35

Ciemniewski, Jerzy, 88-89Civic Forum, 31, 33-34, 60

collaborators in, 71

lustrace law and, 73Civic Movement Party, 111-12Clinton, Bill, 68CNN, 69Cold War, 11-12collaboration:

documentation of, 290-305

policy of post-Communistgovernments on, 4-6Commission to Investigate the Eventsof the 17th of November, seeNovember 17 CommissionCommunist Party, Czech, 29

Action Program of, 17-18

blackmail used by, 67-68

economic reform and, 13-16

membership of, 29

national character and, 30-31

People's Militia in, 90

Prague Spring and, 17-18

in recent elections, 109-10

StB and, 46, 51-52

during World War II, 7-8Communist Party, East German, seeSocialist Unity Party, EastGermanCommunist Party, Polish, 144

Jews purged from, 153-55

Khrushchev's 1956 speech and,150-51, 168-71

limited appeal of, 149-50

membership of, 168-70

Solidarity and, 161, 162, 196-98

"Them" strategy and, 173-74

before World War II, 149Communists, communism:

as clear solution to post-WorldWar II problems, 8-9

Czech vs. Polish, 29-31

duty of, 4

East German national identity and,277-80

fascism vs., 405-6

as heroes of World War II, 7-8

historical reinterpretations of,xv-xvii

idealism and, 29

in Latin America, 114, 405-6

myths about, xiv-xv

nationalists and, xx

429

Confederation for an IndependentPoland (KPN), 126-27, 240

Cooper, Belinda, 359, 360, 370, 371

corruption, trials for, 337-38

Council of Europe, 98

Croatia, xx

Crooked Circle Club, 154

Czech Journalists' Union, 104

Czechoslovakia, 3-121anticommunism in, xviiCommunist abuses in, 69-70Communist coup in, 10Communist rebuilding of, 9-10conspiracy theories in, 116-19cultural underground in, 16economic reform in, 13-16, 117-19economic success and reforms in,

107-8economy of, see economy, Czechfree press in, 17FSISin, 105, 106, 110Government of National

Understanding in, 34Hitler's invasion of, 7judges in, 100

national character in, 30-31under Nazi occupation, 7-91992 elections in, 111-12Normalization in, 21-22Polish troops in, 156postwar rebuilding of, 9-10prewar vs. postwar economy in,

9-10purges in,

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