Read Modern Times: The World From the Twenties to the Nineties Online
Authors: Paul Johnson
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Okhrana (secret police), 68
Okinawa, 424
Okuma, Count Shigenobu, 185
Olivetti, Angelo, 57
Olympio, Sylvanus, 517
‘On the Socialization of the Land’ Law (Russia, 1918), 92
OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), 667 668–9, 670
‘Operation Barbarossa’, 379–81
‘Operation Decision’, 425
‘Operation Musketeer’, 491
‘Operation Pincher’, 441
Ophuls, Max, 113
Oppenheimer, Robert, 407, 424
Oran, 366, 368, 496
Oranienburg, 418
Orden
, 124, 125
Ordzhonikidze, G.K., 301
Orgburo (Organization Bureau), 83, 84, 87
Ortega, Daniel, 705
Ortodoxos
(Cuban party), 619, 620
Orwell, George, 162, 334, 335, 336, 338, 471
Oshima, General Hiroshi, 396
OSS (Office of Strategic Services), 437, 458, 631
Outer Mongolia, 192
Owen, Wilfred, 163
Oxford Union, 349
ozone layer, 774–5
Pacific region, 730, 735, 736, 747
pacifism, 348–50
‘Pact of Steel’ (1939), 321, 359
Page, Kirvy, 260
Pahlevi, Reza, Shah of Persia, 45, 606, 665, 673, 710–13
Pakistan, 157, 686, 719; in ‘northern tier’, 489; militarism, 568, 570; economy, 568, 573; war with India, 568–9
Pal, Radhabino, 428
Palestine, 22, 43, 439, 481–5; limited Jewish immigration, 420, 482; as Jewish National
Home 481, 484; Jewish terrorism, 482—3; American impingement on, 484; partition, 484–5; Arab refugees, 486–7, 703
Palme, Olaf, 715
Palmer, Mitchell, 205, 206, 209, 212
Panama, 752–3
Panunzio, Vito, 101
Papadopoulos, Colonel George, 611
Papagos, Field Marshal, 610, 611
Papandreou, George, 611
Papen Franz von, 282, 283, 298, 353
Papertin, General Viktor, 719
Paris, Treaty of (1951), 591, 593 parliamentary democracy; Bolshevik destruction of, 71–2, 132; Hitler’s contempt for, 132; disappearance in new African states, 518; India, 567, 570
Partie Populaire Française
, 146
Partita Popolare Trentino
, 578, 579
Pashukanis, Evgeny, 679
Pasternak, Boris, 65, 382
Pater, Walter, 10
Patterson, Robert, 437
Patti, Archimedes, 631
Patton, General George, 250
Pauker, K.V., 300
Paul VI, Pope, 607, 702
Pavlov, D.G., 383
Peace Ballot (1934–5), 350
Peace Conference (Paris, 1919), 25–30, 149
Peace Corps, 615
Peace Pledge Union, 350
Peace Preservation Law (Japan, 1925), 183
Pearl Harbor, 310, 390, 393–4
Pearson Repor t (1969), 692, 693
‘peasant’ novels, 118–19
peasants: in Chinese armies, 198–200; collectivization of, 92–3, 261, 266, 270–1; and industrialization, 265; new ‘attack’ on, 93–4; and Russian Revolution, 59–63, 88, 94, 267; and
Volk
movement, 118
Pegging Act (South Africa, 1943), 552
Péguy, Charles, 19
Peierls, Rudolf, 407
Peking, 195, 446, 556; Marco Polo Bridge ‘incident’, 316; cultural life, 553–4, 559; violence in, 556–8
Peng Chen, 553
‘People’s Courts’, 290
Percival, General A.E., 395, 396
perestroika
, 756
Perlo, Victor, 458
Perloff, H.S., 747
Perón, Juan, 616–18
Persia (now Iran, q.v.), 154, 156
personal responsibility, 10, 11, 70
Peru, 234
Pétain, Marshal Philippe, 365–6, 368, 587
Peters, J. (‘Alexander Stevens’), 458
Petrograd Soviet, 62, 63, 65, 67
Phalanges Universitaires
, 146
Philippines, 393, 395, 736
Phillimore, Walter, 30–1
philosophy, 699
Phnom Penh, 654–5
physics, 775
Picasso, Pablo, 9, 336, 575
PIDE (Police for the Defence of the State, Portugal), 607
Pigou, A.C., 235
Pilsudski, Marshal, 280
Pinochet, General Augusto, 738–9
piracy, 687–8
Piscator, Erwin, 112, 306
Pius x, Pope, 145
Pius xi, Pope, 579
PLA (People’s Liberation Army, China), 561, 566
Planck, Max, 699
‘Platt Amendment’, 616, 619
Plekhanov, G.V., 52
PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization), 483, 666, 687, 688, 708, 709, 710, 715
Pohl, Karl Otto, 763
Poincaré, Raymond, 138, 139–40, 141, 148, 345
Point Four programme, 242, 671
Pol Pot, 656
Poland, 139, 140, 147, 432; creation of, 21, 26, 27; gains from Versailles, 39, 106; minorities, 39; non-aggression treaty with Hitler, 338, 346, 357; German threat to, 357–60; invasion, 360, 362–3; Nazi-Soviet division of, 373; murder of Jews from, 415, 418, 420; Soviet domination, 435; Catholicism, 701–2; economy, 726–7; end of Communist rule, 759, 763
Polenz, Wilhelm von, 119
police-state, German creation of, 285, 286–90
Polisario rebels, 538, 541 political police, 66–71
Political Responsibilities, Law of (Spain, 1939), 339
Pollitt, Harry, 336
Ponchaud, François, 657
Popper, Karl, 3, 6, 37, 577, 699, 780
‘Popular Front’, Communist, 316, 323, 359
Popular Front, French, 151
Popular Front, Spanish, 324, 325–6, 328
Population Registration Act (South Africa, 1950), 523
population trends, 140–1, 188, 588, 596, 722–4, 747–8
Port Arthur, 187, 202, 429, 448
Portal, Air Chief Marshal, 404
Porter, Cole, 227
Portillo, Jose Lopez, 747
Portugal, 188, 189; colonial social engineering, 519–20; political change, 607–8, 745–6; population, 723
‘post-capitalism’, 739
POUM
(Partido Obrero de Uniicatión Marxista)
, 325, 326, 334
poverty problem, 638–40, 691
Powell, Adam Clayton, 477
Prague, 356, 357, 359
Prieto, Indalecio, 325
printing unions, in Britain, 743–4
prisoners-of-war, 427–8
privatization, 744–5
Prohibition, 209–12
Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act (South Africa, 1949), 523
proletarian consciousness, 55, 56, 57, 135 proletariat: dictatorship of, 78, 89, 92; as opposed to peasantry, 118; revolution of, 56, 58–63, 191
protectionism, 232, 234, 246
Protestantism, evangelical, 705–6
Proust, Marcel, 9–10, 145
Provisional Government (Russia), 61, 63
psychiatric punishment, 681–2
psychoanalysis, 5–8
Pyatakov, G.L., 307
Qawukji, Fawzi al-, 485
Quine, Willard, 700
Quintanilla, Pepe, 337
Quota Law (US, 1921), 205
race, as basis for colonial land apportionment, 158, 159–60
race-poisoning, 342–3
race theories, 120, 145; Hitler’s, 129, 130
racism: of African states, 526–8, 534; anti-Americanism as, 694; inter-tribal, 527–8, 534; inverted, 516; German, 145, 319, 342–3; Israel accused of, 690;
see also apartheid
Radcliffe, Sir Cyril, 473
Radek, Karl, 49, 82, 92
Radie; Stepan, 40
Radio Corporation of America, 239
Raeder, Admiral Erich, 357, 374
rainforests, destruction of, 774
Rapallo Treaty (1922), 76, 124, 139
Rappaport, Charles, 52–3
Rascher, Dr Sigmund, 418
Rathenau, Walther, 116, 127
Rauschning, Hermann, 293, 354, 409
Ravensbruck, 418
Rawlings, Flight-Lieut. Jerry, 541
Rawlinson, General Sir Henry, 75
Read, Herbert, 163
Reading, Lord, 162
Reagan, Ronald, 748–50, 751–2, 753, 754, 757
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC), 245, 255
Reddy, Snehalata, 570
Reed, James, 34
refugees, 719–20, 735
Reggio Emilia, Congress of (1912), 57
Reichenau, General von, 298
Reinhardt, Max, 112, 113, 131
Reiss, Erich, 117
Relativity, Einstein’s Theory of, 1–5, 11, 406, 453, 698, 699
religious belief: decline in, 7, 48; and economic patterns, 606; survival of, 700–6
reparations, 24, 28, 36, 134, 139
Republican Party, American, 214, 250, 460, 649
Republicans, Spanish, 326–8, 329, 331, 332, 338
Resistance, French, 588
Revenue Act (US, 1932), 245
revolutionary conscience, 85–6, 181
Reynaud, Paul, 365
Rhineland, 21, 26; remilitarization, 320, 349, 352
Rhodes, Cecil, 152
Rhodesia, 508, 509, 538
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 291, 359, 360, 361, 387
Richthofen, Colonel Wolfgang von, 335
Riehl, Wilhelm Heinrich, 118
Riezler, Kurt, 12, 15, 16, 107
Right: French, 143, 346; German, 124–5, 127, 281, 282, 283, 286; Spanish, 322, 328–32
Riom trials, 365, 588
Riotous Assemblies Act (South Africa, 1930), 521
Rist, Charles, 236
Rivera, Primo de, 322
Robbins Report (1963), 642
Robles, Gil, 324, 326
Robles, José, 334, 335, 337
Roca, Blas, 619
Rocca, Enrico, 319
Rockefeller, David, 544
Rodgers, Richard, 227
Roehm, Ernst, 133, 278, 281, 287, 296–9
Rogers, Will, 220 260
Rogers, William, 648
Romania, 21, 105, 147, 361; Russian invasion, 364, 373; murdered Jews from, 415; as Soviet satellite, 434; economy, 727; Ceausescu’s regime, 760–2
Romberg, Sigmund, 227
Rome, Fascist march on (1922), 99–100, 134
Rome, Treaty of (1957), 591, 592, 599
Rome-Berlin Axis (1936), 321, 352
Rommel, Erwin, 374, 399, 411
Roosevelt, Franklin, D., 241, 243, 250, 353, 375, 389, 398, 407, 410, 424, 425, 470, 647; on Hoover, 242; 1932 presidential campaign, 251–3; antipathy between Hoover and, 250–4; credited with recovery from Great Depression, 254–60, 294; economic policies, 255–8; legislation, 255–6; New Deal, 255–7, 259, 344; appeal to intelligentsia, 257–8; attacks on him, 258–9; 1936 electoral victory, 259; isolationism, 310, 344; anti-Japanese, 317, 392; ‘frivolous’ handling of foreign policy, 344–5, 458; proposes non-agression guarantees, 345, 358; and aid to Russia, 371, 384, 385; bedazzled by Stalin, 386, 404, 430, 432–6, 458; pro-Chinese, 391–2, 443, 631; at Yalta, 404, 430, 433; urges unconditional surrender, 411; lip-service to Jewish immigration, 420, 421; accedes to Stalin’s demands, 430; at Teheran, 433; disillusioned over Stalin, 436; anti-Zionist, 484; ‘Good Neighbour’ policy, 616; presidential skulduggery, 650, 651; use of tapes, 652
Roosevelt, Theodore, 16, 214, 218, 249, 251, 258
Rosenberg, Alfred, 284, 292, 414
Rosenberg, Isaac, 163
Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel, 458
Rosenberg, Marcel, 333
Ross, Mary, 225
Rostovtzeff, Michael, 222
Rothermere, Lord, 306
Rothschild, Louis, 235
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 783
Royden, Dr Maude, 350
Ruanda-Urundi, 509
Rubottom, Roy, 621
Rueff, Jacques, 587, 595
Rugumayo, Edward, 534
Ruhr, 124, 134, 141; French occupation, 139, 147; American investment, 280
Rumsfeld, Donald, 672
Rushdie, Salman, 716–17
Rusk, Dean, 614
Russell, Bertrand, 12, 79, 168, 171–2, 264, 349, 699
Russia: predominance of state in Imperial Russia, 14–15; proportion of subject peoples, 20; collapse of Tsarist regime, 21, 54; Bolshevik control of, 22; Lenin’s return to (1917), 49–50, 54, 58–9, 60; Revolution, 59–70; peasantry, 59–63; Provisional Government, 61, 63; first All-Russian Congress of Soviets, 62; first and last true parliamentary election, 64; use of terror, 66–73, 88, 262–3, 266–7, 271, 274–5, 299–308, 383–4; control of press, 64–5; political police, 66–70, 78, 80, 91; Russia
(contd) end of rule of law and democracy, 68, 71–2, 84–5; totalitarianism, 73, 78–94, 277; Western attitude to, 72–6; German military assistance to, 76; ‘union’ of nationalities, 76–7; imperialism, 77, 710–11; constitution (of USSR), 77–8; elimination of non-party opposition, 78–80; supremacy of party, 80–1; economy, 86–93, 676–7, 725–6, 767–8 universal labour service, 91–2, 274; social engineering, 92–3, 94, 241, 261, 266, 270–3, 524; internal struggles, 263–5; destruction of peasants, 267–72; slave labour, 274; show-trials, 274–5, 307; Western credulity on, 275–7, 306–7; political murders and purges, 299–308, 334; beneficiary of Sino-Japanese war, 316–17; and Spanish Civil War, 329–30; pact with Germany, 360–2, 373; German invasion of, 372–80, 382; Great Patriotic War, 382–7; army purges, 383; Western aid to, 385–6; and war crimes, 429–31; war gains, 433–5; and Cold War, 435, 437–8, 539, 614, 685; disputes with Yugoslavia and China, 448–51, 549–51; Iron Curtain, 452; witch-hunt of intellectuals, 453–4; and division of Germany, 585–6; and national liberation wars, 615; and Cuba, 623, 625–7, 684–5; space programme, 629; and Indo-China, 631, 632; and Egypt, 666; post-Stalin stability, 674–85; three-tiered ruling class, 677–8; attempts at liberalizing, 678–9, 682; new terror, 680; penal psychiatry for dissenters, 681–2; naval expansion, 681–2; descent on black Africa, 684–5; growing problems, 698; collapse of Communist ideology, 701; Jews allowed to leave, 709; and Middle East, 715; and Afghanistan, 717–20, 754; and Islam, 720; imperialism, 720–2; population, 722, 723; armaments, 753; leadership problems, 754–5; and the European Community, 765; internal problems, 765–8; end of Cold War, 768; and GulfWar, 770, 771
Rutherford, Lord, 406
Rykov, Alexei, 266, 301
SA (Brownshirts), 124, 278, 281, 286, 287, 290, 292; purge of, 296–8
Saar, 21, 278; reversion to Germany, 351
Sacco, Nicolo, 205
Sachsenhausen, 418
Sack, Erno, 116
Sadat, Anwar El, 538, 667–8, 708, 710
Said, Mohanedi, 497
Saigon, 654
Saito, Admiral Makoto, 185, 314
Sakharov, Andrei, 680, 682, 690
Sakok, Hadj, 497
Salack, Ould, 541
Salan, General Raoul, 503
Salazar, Antonio, 607
Sale of Securities Act (US, 1933), 255
SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks), 468, 673