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Authors: Christian Caryl

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Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century (78 page)

Singapore,
3
,
132
,
173
,
248
,
257
,
352

Singh, Manmohan,
325

Slipyj (Cardinal),
286

Smith, John,
319

Socialism,
42
,
47
,
61
,
111–112
,
135
,
161
,
163
,
167
,
170
,
177
,
195
,
222
,
273
,
274
,
317
,
322
,
323
,
326
,
339–340
,
345
,
351

      
socialism with Chinese characteristics,
334

      
socialist democracy,
178

Soroush, Abdulkarim,
349

South Africa,
10

South Korea,
3
,
248
,
257
,
345
,
352
,
354

Sovereignty,
26
,
48
,
68
,
109
,
230
,
351

Soviet Union,
9–10
,
13–15
,
18
,
19
,
39
,
50
,
69
,
72
,
305
,
326
,
345

      
and Afghanistan,
10–11
,
35
,
36
,
39
,
95
,
99
,
101–102
,
213
,
214
,
228
,
263
,
264
,
265
,
266–274
,
279
,
282
,
309

      
afgantsy
veterans in,
274

      
and Communist China,
31

      
and Egypt,
10
,
267

      
and Iran,
41
,
109

      
and Poland,
273
,
287

      
and Vietnam,
169
,
171

Stagflation,
164

Stalin, Joseph,
18
,
27
,
30–31
,
39
,
70
,
74
,
123
,
211

Standard of living,
2
,
16
,
29
,
31
,
57
,
123
,
124
,
128
,
175
,
257
,
359

Stanisław (Saint),
80
,
81
,
197
,
201
,
203

Starvation,
91
,
250
,
251
,
328

Stevas, Norman St. John,
314

Stock exchanges,
335
,
350

Stowe, Kenneth,
183

Strauss, Norman,
191–192

Strikes,
5
,
15
,
17
,
51
,
53
,
124
,
137
,
141
,
143
,
156–157
,
190
,
192
,
316
,
322

      
in Poland,
275
,
276
,
277
,
280

      
and political demands,
280

      
secondary,
194

      
in Soviet Union,
279

      
welfare benefits for strikers,
194

      
working days lost to,
184

Students,
12
,
15
,
17
,
19
,
26
,
48
,
58
,
75
,
92
,
110
,
111
,
123
,
124
,
129
,
139
,
142
,
151
,
174
,
222
,
225–226
,
243–244
,
283
,
332
,
333

      
Iranian students’ beliefs about America,
237
(
see also
Iran: US Embassy attacked and hostages taken
)

      
Polish students,
277

      
See also
Young people

Subsidies,
183
,
323

Sudan,
308
,
310

Sufism,
37
,
40
,
85
,
87
,
111
,
227

Suicides,
19
,
31
,
282

      
suicide bombings,
295
,
298

Sun
newspaper,
181

Sunnis,
37
,
47
,
85
,
91
,
104
,
216
,
223
,
225
,
297
,
300
,
301
,
306
,
311
,
347

Suslov, Mikhail,
100

Switon, Kazimierz,
200

Syria,
105
,
300
,
346

Szczepanowski, Stanisław,
80
.
See also
Stanislaw (Saint)

Taiwan,
3
,
24
,
125
,
170
,
172
,
246
,
247
,
257
,
352
,
354

Tajiks/Tajikistan,
227
,
272
,
309

Taleqani, Ayatollah Mahmoud,
9
,
92
,
138
,
142
,
151–152

Taliban,
299
,
310–311
,
347
,
355

Taraki, Nur Mohammed,
39
,
97
,
98
,
99
,
100
,
101
,
212
,
214–215

      
death of,
266

      
and Hafizullah Amin,
262–266

Taxation,
5
,
6
,
29
,
35
,
57
,
61
,
91
,
142
,
156
,
158
,
159
,
161
,
166
,
182
,
185
,
188
,
190
,
195
,
231
,
272
,
318
,
319
,
322
,
323
,
329

      
value-added tax (VAT),
186
,
193

Tebbit, Norman,
156–157
,
158

Technology,
3–4
,
20
,
119
,
132
,
133
,
134
,
142
,
171
,
218
,
227
,
247
,
257
,
293
,
329
,
359

Television,
158
,
172
,
199
,
205
,
208
,
222
,
236
,
241
,
246
,
247
,
331

Teng, Teresa,
247–248

Terrorism,
1
,
15
,
79
,
308
,
309
.
See also
Suicides: suicide bombings

Thalib, Jaffar Umar,
309

Thatcher, Margaret,
53–54
,
59–61
,
62–65
,
73
,
155
,
156
,
181–195
,
313–326
,
341–342
,
351
,
359

      
cabinet of,
184–185
,
190–193
,
194
,
315
,
319

      
campaign tactics/speeches of,
158–159
,
160–161

      
and civil service,
184

      
domineering style of,
192–193
,
319
,
320

      
economic thinking of,
166–167

      
father of,
58–59
,
342

      
first public statement as prime minister,
183

      
and miners’ strike of 1984–1985,
194
,
316
,
319

      
resignation of,
321

      
shadow side of Thatcher era,
321–322

      
Thatcherism,
64
,
163
,
164
,
165
,
187
,
316
,
321
,
324
,
325
,
326
,
342

      
and unions,
189–190
,
191
,
192
,
194
(
see also
Great Britain: unions in
)

      
and values/moral principles,
60
,
187
,
342

      
visit to Buckingham Palace,
182–183

Theocracy,
145
,
151
,
152
,
153
,
233
,
238
,
239
.
See also
Islam: Islamic State/Republic

Thorneycroft, Peter,
192

Tigers of East Asia,
3
.
See also individual countries

Tomášek, Cardinal František,
286

Torture,
19
,
22
,
79
,
220
,
240
,
245

Trade,
16
,
38
,
44
,
166
,
245
,
246
,
256
,
257
,
258
,
320
,
336

Tunisia,
345

Turkey,
33
,
42
,
90
,
325

Turkmens,
151

Tygodnik Powszechny
,
17
,
198

Tyranowski, Jan,
70

Ukraine,
203
,
273
,
286

Unemployment,
2
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
44
,
46
,
54
,
56
,
57
,
124
,
138
,
182
,
313
,
315
,
322
,
323
,
331

Unions,
4
,
200
,
277
,
282
.
See also under
Great Britain
;
Thatcher, Margaret

United States,
8
,
161
,
162
,
186–187
,
268

      
and Afghanistan,
10
,
35
,
36
,
39
,
215
,
271
,
273
,
299
,
305

      
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),
42
,
215
,
304

      
economy,
4
,
125

      
and Iran,
48
,
89
,
90
,
96
,
138
,
229
,
230
,
233
,
238
,
242

      
medical treatment for shah of Iran in,
231–232

      
and People’s Republic of China,
169
,
170
,
171
,
172

      
World Trade Center in,
308

      
See also
Deng Xiaoping: visit to United States

Universities,
8
,
12
,
19
,
26
,
34
,
39
,
40
,
41
,
46
,
70
,
72
,
103–104
,
109
,
123
,
124
,
139
,
151
,
162
,
174
,
219
,
225
,
226
,
243
,
291
.
See also
Students

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