The Red Flag: A History of Communism (127 page)
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Authors: David Priestland
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1960s
strength and variety of communism,
454
Abuladze, Tengiz,
532–3
Adler, Victor,
59
Aeschylus,
Prometheus
trilogy,
xxi–xxiii
Afinogenov, Aleksandr,
178
Africa
Che Guevara’s tour of nationalist states,
392–4
Communist parties in,
397–8
independence of Portuguese colonies,
476–7
Marxism in,
394–5
Marxism-Leninism in,
470
nationalist movements,
397–8
Portuguese,
472–3
radicalization of leaders,
469–70
agrarian economies, Communist success in,
114
Akhmatova, Anna,
280
Albania,
546
break with USSR,
408–9
ethnic and clan politics of,
409
Khrushchev’s USSR seen as imperialist,
404–5
Maoism in,
409
use of Stalinist model,
408–9
Alekseeva, Ludmilla,
347
Alexander II, assassination,
70
Allende, Salvador,
474–5
Amsterdam Congress of the International 1904,
57
anarchism, conflict with Marxism,
41–2
ancien régime,
features of in USSR under Stalin,
164–5
apparatchiki,
emergence of,
166–7
architecture
modernity in the USSR,
343–5
Pioneer Palace,
315–16
Stalinist in Beijing,
351
tall buildings of the Stalinist regime,
273–5
tribunes and squares of the USSR,
275
army (French) under the Jacobins,
10–12
Arp, Hans,
104–5
artisans,
33–4
Arzhilovskii, Andrei,
172
Asia
capitalism in,
562
difficulties embedding Marxism,
243–4
Indonesia,
271
Malaysia,
271–2
nationalist movements,
237
North Korea,
267–9
Philippines,
271
Stalin’s approach towards,
232–3
USSR’s approach towards,
238–9
atheism in the USSR,
345
Baader–Meinhof Gang,
465
Babel, Isaak,
88–9
Baibakov, Nikolai,
526
Baku Comintern congress,
237
Bandung conference,
373–5
Bay of Pigs invasion, Cuba,
384–6
Bebel, August,
52
Beijing’s Ten Great Buildings,
351
Bely, Andrei,
80–81
Beria, Lavrentii,
323–4
Berkeley University,
455–6
Berlinguer, Enrico,
496–7
Bernstein, Eduard,
55–7
Bhattacharya, Narendra Nath,
237–8
Black Power,
460
Blonde Round the Corner, The,
446
Bloody Sunday (Russia),
78
Bolsheviks
control over national parties,
124–7
discipline and support welcomed by national parties,
127–8
emergence of pure Communist parties under,
122–3
move from radical to modernist Marxism,
62–3
progress of after First World War,
107–8
seizure of power by,
87–8
Stalin joins,
137
wartime methods to control economy,
95–6
Bolshevism, appeal of for China,
242
Bosnian war,
551–2
Brezhnev, Leonid
attitude to Stalin,
430
background,
420
character,
420–21
cult of Malaia Zemlia,
430
economic reforms,
421
ideological flexibility,
421
jokes about,
419
love of hierarchy,
431
meeting with Nixon 1972,
450
stability of cadres principle,
431
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT),
450
Bukharin, Nikolai,
142
Buonarroti, Filippo,
19
Burlatskii, Fedor,
322
Cabet, Étenne,
21
Cabral, Amílcar,
469
Caetano, Marcelo,
475
Calvert, Gregory,
458–9
Cambodia,
488–95
capital
allocation of as problem,
417–18
shortage of, impact of,
523–7
Captive Mind, The
(Miosz),
286–7
Carmichael, Stokely,
460
Carnation Revolution, Portugal,
475–6
Carnot, Lazare Nicholas,
10
cars, provision of,
416
Case of the Illiterate Saboteur, The
(Tuma),
480–81
Castro, Fidel
assassination attempts on,
386
background,
381
on Che Guevara,
381
Catholic Church
in Italy,
294
and Marxism in Latin America,
468
Poland,
518–19
see also
religion
Ceauşescu, Nicolae,
546
alliance with Czech reformers,
403
background,
403
cult of,
407
ethnic nationalism,
407–8
as Romanian premier,
406–7
Cement
(Gladkov),
140–42
Central America,
530
Cheka, Russian secret police,
95
Chiang Kaishek
change in attitude towards USSR,
247
Northern Expedition,
248