The End of the Cold War. 1985-1991

INDEX 641

and Eastern Europe 66, 76, 162, 327–8
economy 268
and Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait 473
military-industrial complex 5, 58–9,
251
neoglobalism of 201
refusal to give financial aid to USSR
471–2
relations with China 46–7, 93–4, 384,
388–9, 499
relations with Japan 92
relations with Russia 498, 499–500
relations with West Germany 86–7
Soviet disinformation about foreign
policy of 261–4
trade relations with USSR 47–9, 140,
161–2, 167, 243–4, 376, 421, 425,
443
United States Communist Party 96, 99
United States Information Agency 262,
263–4 see also Romerstein, Herb;
Wick, Charles
Uno, Sōsuke 379–80
USSR
‘1941 syndrome’ 21
agriculture 56, 107–8, 125, 252, 411
anti-American propaganda and
campaigns of disinformation
about US policy 261–4
biological weapons 372–3, 438–9, 466,
484
censorship 77–80
changes in society 272–3
constitutional structure 53
declaration of emergency (1991) 482,
490–1
disappearance of atomic submarines in
Sargasso Sea (1986) 207–8
discarding commitment to Central
America 397, 398
dismantling of (1991) 482–94, 498
and Eastern Europe 72–6, 80, 95,
151–2, 314–28
and Eastern Europe revolutions (1989)
400–15
economy and economic problems 9,

55–6, 58–60, 179–80, 199, 227–8,

339, 344, 400, 419, 441, 442,

445–6, 469

and global communism 24, 61, 93–8,

216, 390–9

human rights questions 113, 153, 154,

207, 236–7, 245, 250, 345, 357

industrial espionage see espionage

information technology industry 275

invasion of Afghanistan (1979) 2, 6, 14,

22

landing of German Cessna in Red

Square (1987) 245–7

Law on the State Enterprise (1988) 344

limits placed on numbers of foreigners

visiting 81–2

as a militarized police state 77–83

military expenditure 58, 280, 281–2,

360

military-industrial complex 2, 59, 128,

140, 346, 418, 431

military-technical collaboration with

non-communist countries 97–8

oil industry 59–60

and Poland 21, 66–71

pre-Gorbachëv difficulties in 6–7

preparations for nuclear war 24–30

restrictions on movement of citizens

82–3

spread of political volatility and

demonstrations (1989) 370–1

spy network 260

technological gap between the West

and 59

telephone system and lifting of

quarantine of communications

273

trade relations with US 47–9, 140,

161–2, 167, 243–4, 376, 421, 425,

443

and world communism 390–2

Ustinov, Dmitri 24–5, 27, 55, 61, 98, 103,

104, 106, 108, 113, 278

Vãduva, Ilie 315

Vaino, Karl 453