Vladimir Tismaneanu: The Devil in History

externalization, of source of failure

Fabian, David

factionalism, Communist. See also Mensheviks; Trotsky, Leon / Trotskyites

Falcon, Irene

Falk, Barbara

falsification: East and Central European regimes; homo prevaricatus ; of idea of good; Marxist “false consciousness,”; Putin regime; Short Course of History of the CPSU ; Stalinist. See also amnesia; Big Lie; fantasies of salvation; truth

fantasies of salvation

Fascism; vs. Bolshevism; Communist anti-Fascism; differences between Communism and; ideology; Italian; leader charisma; and morality; party charisma; post-Communism and; redemptive mythology; revolutionary movement; revolutionary passion; similarities with Communism; Stalinism syncretized with; ur-Fascism; utopia of; violence sanctified by; Western anti-Fascism. See also enemies; Mussolini, Benito; Nazism

Fehér, Ferenc; Dictatorship over Needs (Heller, Fehér, and Márkus)

Field, Noel

Figes, Orlando

Final Solution. See Holocaust

Fitzpatrick, Sheila

forced confessions. See also show trials

forced labor. See also gulag

France: The Black Book of Communism ; Bonapartism; Solzhenitsyn and; Sorbonne occupation

Franco, Francisco

Frankfurt School

Frank, Semyon, Vekhi (Landmarks)

freedom; anti-Fascism; The Black Book of Communism and; dissidents and; easier to gain than to guarantee; kingdom of; Kolakowski on; leap from necessity into; Lenin and; Luxemburg on; Marxist; Nazism and; October Revolution (1917); painful leap into; party charisma; post-totalitarian; of press; reinvention of politics; revisionism and; revolutions (1989-91) and; species. See also human rights; “rights talk”; salvationism

Freedom House

French Revolution (1789)

Freud, Sigmund

Fritzsche, Peter

Frolov, Ivan

Fromm, Erich

Furet, François; Passing of an Illusion/Le passé d’une illusion ; “Sur l’illusion communiste,”

Garton Ash, Timothy; The Magic Lantern ; Ottomanization

gas chamber. See Holocaust

Gauck, Joachim

Gellately, Robert

Geminder, Bedřich

genocide; “class genocide,”; Communism similar to Nazism in; Marxism and; Nazi; Pol Pot regime in Cambodia. See also Holocaust; purges

Gentile, Emilio

Georgescu, Teohari

Geremek, Bronislaw

Gerlach, Christian

Germany: Berlin Wall falling; The Black Book of Communism ; Communist Party (KPD); Communist Writers’ Union; “loss of utopia,”; memory of evil; Merker. See also East Germany (GDR); Nazism

Getty, J. Arch

Geyer, Michael

Gheorghiu-Dej, Gheorghe

Gide, André

Gill, Graeme

Gioventù fascista

Girard, René

glasnost

Goebbels, Joseph; Michael: A German Destiny

Goldmann, Lucien

Gomulka, Wladislaw

good: Bolshevik New Faith and; falsification of idea of; freedom as; Kant’s “Concerning the Indwelling of the Evil Principle with the Good, or, on the Radical Evil in Human Nature,”; post-Communist competing visions of the common good; salvationism and; shared vision of public good; Stalinism and; traditional morality. See also morality; truth

Gorbachev, Mikhail; and democracy, frankness and truth; glasnost; Gorbachev effect; Leninism abandoned by; perestroika; revisionism; Stalin condemned by; “What to Do with the Party?” (with Mlynář); “young policy academic elite,”

Gorky, Maxim

Gorshenin, K. P.

Gorz, André

Gottwald, Klement

Gouldner, Alvin W.

Gramsci, Antonio

Grand Narratives

Gray, John, Black Mass

Great Patriotic War for the Defense of the Motherland

Great Terror, Stalinist

Griffin, Roger

Grillparzer, Franz

Grossman, Vassily; The Black Book of Nazi Crimes against Soviet Jews ; Forever Flowing ; Life and Fate

Grósz, Károly

gulag, Soviet; as fratricide. See also camps; terror

Gyurcsányi, Ferenc

Habermas, Jürgen; The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere

Hager, Kurt

Halfin, Igal

Hannah Arendt Award (2000)

Hanson, Stephen

Haraszti, Miklós

Harrington, Michael

Hassner, Pierre

Havel, Václav; Czech presidency; dictatorship of the ritual; “existential revolution,”; Klaus as rival; living in truth; post-totalitarian system; Power of the Powerless ; Prague Declaration; reinvention of politics; self-empowerment through citizenship; shared vision of public good; teacher Patočka

Hegel, G. W..F. “litany of lamentations,”; Marxism influenced by; real as rational; world-historical events

hegemony: Communist parties; Communist regimes; ideological; Lenin cultural; parallel; radical Left; Soviet Union’s reassertion of. See also political monopoly

Heidegger, Martin

Hell

Hellbeck, Jochen

Heller, Agnes; Dictatorship over Needs (Heller, Fehér, and Márkus)

Helsinki Agreement (1975)

Hendrich, Jiři

Herf, Jeffrey

heroic ethos: Bukharin case; dissident as hero; Fascism; Western anti-Fascism. See also Communist heroic ethos

Himmler, Heinrich

Hirschman, Albert, The Rhetoric of Reaction

Hitler, Adolf; defeat; vs. democracy; enemies of; leader charisma; mission; plot against (1944); redemptive mythology; reinvention of politics; self-entitlement; Strasser brothers disenchanted with; takeover of power. See also Nazism

Hobsbawm, Eric

Ho Chi Minh

Hodos, George H.

Holier, Denis

Holocaust; comparing Nazism and Communism and; hypermnesia about; Manea; memory of; Soviet countries impacted by; Stalinist anti-Semitism obfuscating; Stockholm international conference (2000)

Holquist, Peter

homo prevaricatus

homo sovieticus

Honecker, Erich

Hook, Sydney

Horkheimer, Max

Horthy, Miklós

Howard, Dick

Howard, Marc

Hoxha, Enver

humanism: Bolshevik; Communist pretense; Marxism and; Nazis and; revisionism and; secular; Western. See also Enlightenment

human rights; post-Communism; Soviet movement

Hungary: Civic Union (FIDESZ); Democratic Forum (MDF); Democratic Opposition; de-Stalinization; dissidents (1987-89); Grósz; Gyurcsány; “High Stalinism,”; Horthy; Hungarian Committee; Kádár’s; not exactly totalitarian; Orbán; political turmoil and antigovernment demonstrations (2006); post-Communism; Rajk; Révai; revisionism; Revolution (1956); routinization engineered by pragmatic elites. See also Budapest

Husák, Gustáv

Ianoși, Ion

Ibarruri, Dolores

ideology; Communist; Communist Party hegemonic; decay of; ethnocentric; fantasies of salvation; Fascist; Gorbachev and; ideological apparatchiks as one of three layers in Communist societies; ideological states; intentionality and; post-Communism; post-totalitarian system; Putinism; reinvention of politics and; Romanian bureaucracies; terror and; utopia and. See also millennialism; mythologies; revisionism

Iliescu, Ion

imperialism: Chinese propaganda of; Communism vs.; ideological; “imperialist encirclement,”; “martyrological imperialism,”; proletarian revolution in the age of; Russian; of Sovietization; of Soviet oligarchy; Stalinist; World War II aftermath against Communism; Zionist link with Western. See also hegemony

individual: contempt for; dissidents and; dissolution of; reinvention of politics and; revolutions (1989-91) and. See also citizenship; dehumanization of the enemy; human rights

intellectuals; “conspiracy of academicians,”; dissidents; Marxist revolutionary; one of three layers in Communist societies; post-Communism. See also dissidents