624 THE END OF THE COLD WAR
Arbatov, Georgi 145, 210
Aristov, Boris 161, 162
Armenia
earthquake (1988) 356, 360, 371
Armenians
Azeri massacre of (1988) 454
Asia 202, 378–89
relations with Soviet Union 94, 202
Soviet nuclear weapons in 172, 174,
198, 202, 207, 212, 213–15, 247
see also individual countries
al-Assad, Bashar 499
al-Assad, Hafez 383
Assistance Fund for Communist Parties
and Movements of the Left 95
Austria 371
Axen, Hermann 74
Azerbaijan 482
Aziz, Tariq 474
Bagnall, Nigel 30
Bakatin, Vadim 267, 475, 477
Baker, Howard 235
Baker, James 280, 356, 363, 431–2
and China 389
and Conventional Armed Forces in
Europe Treaty 488
and German reunification 432, 433
and Malta summit 417–18, 421–2
and nuclear disarmament 369, 373
Soviet policy 369, 377
talks and relationship with
Shevardnadze 369, 375, 376–7,
431–2, 435, 437, 438, 439, 450,
479
and US foreign policy 432, 439–40
Baklanov, Oleg 25, 347, 367–8, 418,
444–5, 469, 487
Baldrige, Malcolm 40, 48, 139–40, 161–2
Baltic diaspora 80—1, 210, 456
Baltic Freedom Day 452
Baltic states 8, 418, 432, 433, 452–62, 483,
485–6
and Bush 452, 456, 458–9, 460, 461,
493
and Gorbachëv 452–3, 455–62
independence of 492, 493
and United States 452, 456
see also Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania
Beaver, Mike 18
Belgium 142
Belousov, Ivan 368
Belousov, Rem 316
Belyakov, Oleg 347, 375
Berlin
bombing of La Belle discothèque (1986)
184
Berlin Wall 320, 353
fall of (1989) 412, 416
Berlinguer, Enrico 97, 110
Bessmertnykh, Alexander 236, 247, 420,
437, 438, 460, 480, 484
Bhutto, Benazir 387
Bialer, Professor Seweryn 207
Big Five (USSR) 99, 134–5, 166, 237, 241,
277, 279, 284, 296, 346, 372–3, 418,
436–7, 439, 494, 609
biological weapons
and Soviet Union 372–3, 438–9, 466,
484
Bobkov, Filipp 63, 455
Bodyul, Ivan 58
Boldin, Valeri 346–7, 451, 467, 487, 490
Braithwaite, Rodric 253, 309, 372, 461,
487–8
Brandt, Willi 410
Brazauskas, Algirdas 455, 459
Brezhnev, Leonid 2, 15, 48, 53, 54–5, 87,
130, 390
and China 93
deterioration of health 54, 66
and Eastern Europe 66, 72
meeting with Foot and Healey 100
and nuclear weapons 27
and Polish crisis 67–8, 71
Reagan’s letter to 20
and Romania 74–5
Brezhnev Doctrine 124
Britain 91, 181–2
miners’ strike (1984) 100
relations with USSR 484
see also Thatcher, Margaret