Blanquism
Bloch, Ernst
Blomberg-Frisch affair
Blum, Léon
Bogdanov, Aleksandr
Bohemia: Communist Party; and patrimonial legacy
Bolshevism; Communist Manifesto and; conversion of; converting into an emerging version of Communist-Fascism; critics; cult of the party; cult of totality; de-Bolshevization; Declaration of the Rights of Toiling and Exploited People (1918); vs. democracy; dream of total revolution; Fascism vs.; Gorbachev and; humanism; ideology; Judeo-Bolsheviks; justice subordinated to party interests; “language of magic,”; Menshevik split with; messianism; mission; “modern agenda of subjectivization,”; and morality; New Faith; norms of culture of; October Revolution (1917); Old; party charisma; political “sins,”; post-Soviet Russia; revolutionary passion; Stalinistnationalist traditions of; “substitutionism,”; takeover of power; terror; victory in the civil war. See also Communist Party; Communist utopia; Leninism; Stalinism; vanguard party
Bonapartism
Bonner, Elena
Borkenau, Franz
Bormann, Martin
Bosworth, R. J. B.
Botez, Mihai
Bourdieu, Pierre
bourgeoisie; both Communism and Fascism vs.; Communism vs.; Fascism vs.; Jewish
Bracher, Karl Dietrich
Brandenberger, David
Brandt, Willy
Brașov workers' protest movement
Brezhnev, Leonid
Brown, Archie
Browning, Christopher
Brzezinski, Zbigniew
Budapest, neo-Marxist School/Petöfi Circle
Buhr, Manfred
Bukharin, Nikolai; The ABC of Communism (with Preobrazhensky); Economics of the Transition Period; “To a Future Generation of Party Leaders,”
Bukovsky, Vladimir
Bulgaria: Danubian confederation; extermination camps and mass executions; “High Stalinism,”; Mladenov; post-Communism; working class passivity
Burlatsky, Fyodor
Burrin, Philippe
Calmanovici, Emil
camps: Communist; extermination; Hell on earth; labor; Nazi. See also gulag
Camus, Albert
capitalism: Communism vs./“capitalist encirclement,”; Eastern Europeans vs.; liberal; Nazism vs.; Westerners vs., See also market economies
care of the soul
Castoriadis, Cornelius
Castro, Fidel
Cathala, Jean
Ceaușescu, Nicolae: charismatic leadership; civil society; “Great Helmsman,”; Manea persecution; post-Communism and; Răutu and; singing International while dying; Stalinism; Tudor as court poet
CEMA (Council for Economic Mutual Assistance)
Central Committee: Luxemburg on; Romanian Workers' Party; Socialist Unity Party (SED)
Central Committee of the CPSU; Jakub Berman; Bukharin; Cultural Department; Frolov; Gorbachev and; Lenin letters (September 1917); notorious resolutions; Piatakov; Plenum (1937); republican elections (1990)
charismatic politics: post-Communist. See also leader charisma/personality cult; mysticism; party charisma
Charter Czechoslovakia
Chávez, Hugo
Cheka
Chernenko, Konstantin
Chernyaev, Anatoly
Chernyshevky, Nikolai, “Crystal Palace,”
Chesterton, Gilbert K.
chiliasms: Communist Manifesto; Communist Party; fantasies of salvation; Fascism; Leninism; revolutions (1989-91) and. See also eschatology; millennialism
China; anti-Fascism and imperialist propaganda of; Chinese propaganda; contemporary; Cultural Revolution; “High Stalinism,”; Leninist parties coming to power; mass murder. See also Mao Zedong
Chirot, Daniel
Chișnevschi, Iosif
citizenship: Communism abolishing; Fascism eroding; nationalist “thick” notion of; revolutions (1989-91) and rebirth of, 1901. See also civil society
civilization: Communism; Nazism
civil society: and anti-Semitism; Communist disintegration of; despotism's destruction of; dissidents and new epoch of; “institutional amphibiousness” causing; Marx on state and; nationalism competing with; post-Communism and; revolutions (1989-91) and; Russia's “gelatinous,”; sixties upheavals and; uncivil society. See also citizenship; civilization
class consciousness; Lenin and; Marx and. See also bourgeoisie; proletariat
“class genocide,”
“class instinct,”
class murder (“sociocide”)
class struggle; East European Communist leaders and; Gorbachev and; Leninist; Marxist; Soviet and Yugoslav visions; Stalinist. See also proletariat; revolutionary class
Clementis, Vladimir
Cohen, Stephen E.
Cohn, Norman
Cold War
Cominform (Communist and Workers' Parties)
Comintern (Third Communist International); Dimitrov; on Fascism; Geminder; propaganda machine
command economies
Communism; anomy; anti-Fascist; anti-Nazi resistance movements; The Black Book of Communism; conversion to; deradicalization; differences between Fascism and; as ecclesiology; evil identified by; ideology; l'illusion lyrique; intentionality; Jacobinism; leader charisma/personality cult; messianism; “mismemory of,”; and morality; neo-Communism; New Man; “People-as-One,”; public and private person; redemptive mythologies; revisionism; revolutionary passion; science and; similarities with Fascism; social engineering; three layers in societies of. See also Bolshevism; Communist criminality; Communist Party; Communist utopia; enemies; hegemony; internationalism; Leninism; Marxism; post-Communism; Soviet Union
Communist criminality: compared with Fascism; dissidents vs.; Gorbachev denouncing Stalin for; Khrushchev denouncing Stalin for; memory/amnesia/silence about; moral blindness toward; number of victims; post-Communism and; purges; radical evil; Romania; Soviet Union; Stalin's crimes against the party; suffering under; terror; utopia and; violence sanctified
Communist heroic ethos; Bolshevik; Leninism; Marxist; Stalinist; War Communism and “building of socialism,”
Communist Manifesto (Marx and Engels); vs. bourgeoisie; vs. capitalism; class struggle; Ianoși and; millenarian redemption; monism, proletarian development; social democracy and; violence glorified by
Communist Party: Albanian; Big Lie; Bohemia and Moravia; Cominform (Communist and Workers' Parties); Comintern and; Czechoslovak; German (KPD); ideological hegemony; Jews in; party charisma; Polish; post-Communism and; revisionism and; Romania; Russian; Russian Federation; Spanish; Western; Yugoslavia. See also Central Committee; Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU); Congresses; factionalism; Politburo; vanguard party
Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU): anti-Fascism; “capitalist encirclement,”; Congress of Victors (Seventeenth Congress); Gorbachev and; ideological hegemony; Institute of Marxism-Leninism; intraparty conflicts; Kommunist; power monopoly; resolution on energy resources to Eastern Europe; The Short Course of History of the CPSU; Twentieth Congress of 1956 (and Khrushchev's Secret Speech denouncing Stalin); Twenty-second Congress (1961); Twenty-seventh Congress (1986). See also Central Committee of the CPSU
Communist utopia; anti-anti-utopianism; anti-Fascist; armed; Bukharin committed to; criminality and; enduring magnetism of; Fascist similarities; ideology and; Leninist; Marxist; neo-Marxists and; revisionism and; revolutions ending (1989-91); shipwreck of; Stalinist; structural challenges
concentration camps. See camps
confessions: forced. See also show trials Congresses: Fifteenth Party Conference (1927); Third Party Congress of the KPD. See also Comintern (Third Communist International); Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)