The Atlantic and Its Enemies

R

Raab, Julius

radar

Radio Urumchi

Rakosi, Matyas

Rakowski, Mieczyslaw

Rambouillet summit (1975)

Ramsay, Douglas

Rangel, Charles

Rangoon

Rapallo, Treaty of (1922)

Rasputin, Valentin

rationing:

Britain

East Germany

France

Ravenscraig steel works

Reader’s Digest (magazine)

Reagan, Nancy

Reagan, Ronald:

background and character

and Ceausescu

and collapse of communism

core beliefs

defence policy

economic policy

election as President (1980); (1984)

enemies of

on failure of Johnson’s Great Society

and Goldwater campaign

Governor of California

Iran-Contra affair

marriages

oratory skills

and Poland

popularity

relationship with Margaret Thatcher

retirement

Savings and Loans crisis

‘The Speech’ (1980)

Strategic Defense Initiative (‘Star Wars’)

and universities

visits Britain

work regimen and leadership style

Recsk

Red Army (Chinese; ‘People’s Liberation Army’)

Red Army (Soviet):

atrocities committed by

conquering of eastern and central Europe

Second World War casualties

Red Army Faction

Red Brigades

Redford, Robert

Reece, Sir Gordon

Rees-Mogg, William, Baron

‘Reg Q’ (American interest rate regulation)

Regan, Donald

Reich, Robert

Reider, Jonathan

Reinhardt, Max

Remington Rand (corporation)

Remond, Rene

Renault (automobile manufacturer)

reparations, First World War

reparations, Second World War:

German

Japanese

Soviet demands

Republican Party (United States)

Rerum Novarum (papal enyclical)

Reuter, Ernst

Reuther, Walter

revolutions of 1848

Rez, Adam

Rhee, Syngman

Rhineland

Rhodesia

Richter, Horst-Eberhard

Richter, Svyatoslav

Ridley, Nicholas, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale

Riesman, David, The Lonely Crowd

Rimbaud, Arthur

Robbins, Lionel, Baron

Robespierre, Maximilien

Robinson, Joan

Rocard, Michel

Rochet, Waldeck

Rockefeller, Nelson

Rodriguez, Carlos

Roe. Wade (1973)

Rohatyn, Felix

Rolls-Royce

Roman Empire

Romania:

communist takeover

economy

establishment of Romanian state