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of Glimpses of World History, a collection of letters to his daughter,
Indira Gandhi, who later became prime minister of India.
Nkrumah, Kwame (1909-1972) —Apolitical representative of
the national bourgeoisie in Ghana. He was prime minister of the
British-ruled Gold Coast from 1951, then of the Independent Republic
of Ghana from 1957. He became its president in 1960,
gradually assuming dictatorial powers. He was overthrown in a
military coup in 1966.
Sukarno (1901-1970) — President of Indonesia from 1945 until
1967. From 1927, he was a leader of the bourgeois wing of the
independence movement which opposed the Dutch occupation of
the archipelago. Imprisoned by the Dutch colonial authorities from
1933 to 1942, he was released by the Japanese with whom he
collaborated. He was instrumental in creating the Republic of Indonesia
in 1945. Like many of the other bourgeois nationalist figures of
the period, Sukarno attempted to maintain some political independence
during the 1950s and 1960s by balancing between imperialism
and Stalinism. The policy proved particularly disastrous for the
working class and peasantry, up to one million of whom were
massacred by the army and its supporters following a military coup in
1965. Sukarno was ousted and replaced by General Suharto.
13. Potsdam Conference — Held in July-August 1945 in
Potsdam, Germany, it was the last inter-Allied conference of World
War II (earlier conferences took place at Tehran and Yalta). It was
attended by the representatives of the victorious imperialist powers
and the Soviet Union. Truman represented the US, Stalin, the USSR
and Churchill represented Britain until he was replaced by Clement
Attlee. They agreed that a four-power Allied Control Council would
rule defeated Germany.
14. Molotov, VyacheslavMikhailovich (Skriabin) (1890-1986)
— Stalin's right-hand man during the bloody liquidation of the
Russian Marxists in the 1930s. He functioned as president of the
Comintern during the disastrous ultraleft "Third Period" and as
president of the Council of People's Commissars from 1930-1941.
Later, as commissar of foreign affairs, he accompanied Stalin to the
Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam conferences. He opposed Khrushchev
and the limited revelations of Stalin's crimes in 1956, and was ousted
from the leadership. Expelled from the CPSU in 1961, he was
readmitted in 1984.
15. Nasser, Gamal Abdel (1918-1970) — Led a military coup
d'etat which overthrew King Farouk of Egypt in 1952. He ended the
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