A History of the World From the 20th to the 21st Century

growth of general public irreverence towards the leader was perhaps best shown by the many jokes circulating about him during th ...

The 1960s and early 1970s were a distinctive and decisive period in American history. They were years of rapidly growing prosper ...

campaign of Barry Goldwater, who was well to the right of mainstream Republicans. In 1966 and 1967 he rebuilt his political supp ...

struck. With this vital concession, might a deal have been made sooner saving many lives? It was bitterly opposed by the preside ...

was Vietnam any closer to a political solution. The South Vietnamese government felt it had been sold down the river, as the rem ...

organised the break-in at the Democratic Party campaign headquarters in the Watergate Building in Washington in June 1972; the p ...

constituencies. Ford had been catapulted from obscurity by Agnew’s resignation and the demise of Nixon. Carter, former navy offi ...

Taft–Hartley Act. Other federal regulatory meas- ures were passed that protected the environment in Alaska and limited the damag ...

assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, inc ...

The changes that took place in the Soviet Union after Mikhail Gorbachev succeeded to the posi- tion of general secretary of the ...

from prison and from exile, respectively, in 1986. But he also rejected capitalism. ‘Capitalism’, he declared in a speech in Feb ...

Committee of 319 full and 151 candidate mem- bers meeting normally every six months. The Central Committee also ‘elected’ the Se ...

Khrushchev’s rule that no party official could serve more than fifteen years and that one-third of the members on all committees ...

be chosen by the people in a secret ballot. It was not democracy yet, for the candidates would all be vetted and had to be appro ...

police attempts to remove the most militant demonstrators were caught by the television cam- eras, as was the crowd’s courageous ...

without raising similar claims in the Union’s other republics. He would go no further than holding out a promise of a measure of ...

the summer of 1989 was settled only by giving in to all the miners’ demands, though the promises made could not all be kept. Gor ...

democrat, Anatoly Sobchak. The Federation’s new parliament appeared to be fairly evenly split between conservatives and radicals ...

republics’ demands for sovereignty. He was trying to gain time. Significantly he also turned to his hitherto con- servative oppo ...

called for a general strike and popular support. But the response was patchy. The miners of the Kuznetsk Basin beyond the Urals ...