internationalism, Communist; Gorbachev and; Marxist; proletarian class. See also International (organization)
internationalism, Communist Stalinist definition
Isaac, Jeffrey
Islamist fantasies
Israel, Stalin supporting State of
Istrati, Panait
Italy: The Black Book of Communism; Fascist; paralysis of universities; Salo Republic. See also Mussolini, Benito
Jacobinism; Communist
Jakeš, Miloš
Jarausch, Konrad
Jaruzelski, Wojciech
Jaurès, Jean
Jew: The Black Book of Communism and; Communism as victim of; conspiracy theories about; cosmopolitanism (accused); Eastern Europeans vs.; “education through labor,”; Judeo-Bolsheviks; “Judeo-Masonic conspiracies,”; Judeo-plutocracy; pogroms; Stalin vs.. See also Nazism vs. Jews
Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Soviet
Jewish Democratic Committee
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jowitt, Kenneth: charismatic impersonalism; Eastern Europe; Leninism; “movements of rage,”; post-Cold War order; Stalinism
Judt, Tony: amnesia about oppression; Communism and Nazism morally indistinguishable; Communist utopia; French absence of consensus about justice; Leninism; post-Communism; Postwar; sixty-eighters
“June nights,” 82
Kaczynski brothers
Kádár, János
Kafka, Franz
Kaganovich, Lazar
Kalandra, Zášvis
Kamenev, Lev
Kant, Immanuel, “Concerning the Indwelling of the Evil Principle with the Good, or, on the Radical Evil in Human Nature,”
Katz, Otto
Kautsky, Karl
Keller, Adolf
Kershaw, Ian: centrality of Holocaust in studies; Goebbels and Speer attempt to approach Hitler; Hitler's personality cult; internal contradictions and incoherencies of Nazism; Nazi deportations; Nazi purges; Nazism and Bolshevism
KGB
Khrushchev, Nikita; Mao's view of; return to Leninism; Secret Speech and other denunciations of Stalin's crimes; understanding of post Stalinist Communist systems; Voznesensky reprimanded by
Kim Il-sung
Kis, János
Klaus, Václav
Klemperer, Victor Klemperer, I Will Bear Witness
Koch, Robert
Kocka, Jürgen
Koestler, Arthur; Darkness at Noon/Rubashov
Kolakowski, Leszek; destruction of civil society; devil in history; freedom; leader charisma; lie; Main Currents of Marxism; Marxism; paradoxical attitude toward prophetic stances; “Permanent vs. Transitory Aspects of Marxism,”; Polish State-socialist society humanized; post-Communism; revisionism; Sovietism; Stalinist purges
Kommunist
Konev, Marshall Ivan
Konrád, George; antipolitics; discourse on individuality; Kádár regime's rage toward; shared vision of public good
Kopecky, Vilem
Kopecký, Václav
Kopelev, Lev
Korey, William
Korsch, Karl; Marxismus und Philosophie
Kosik, Karel
Kostov, Traicho
Kotkin, Stephen; Communist lying; Leninist extinction; “re-revolutionizing the revolution,”; revolutions (1989-91); “speaking Bolshevik,”; Stalinism as civilization; The Uncivil Society
Kovalev, Sergey
Kramer, Mark
Krasny Metch
Kriegel, Anniei
Kristeva, Julia
Kronstadt sailors' uprising
Krygier, Martin
Krylova, Ana
kto-kogo (who-whom principle)
Kundera, Milan
Kurczewski, Jacek
Kuroń, Jacek; Open Letter of the Basic Party Organization of PZPR (Polish United Workers' Party) and to Members of the University Cell of the Union of Socialist Youth at Warsaw University (with Modzelewski)
Kuznetsov, Eduard
Kwarniewski, Aleksander
labor: forced. See also gulag
Landsbergis, Vytautas
Laqueur, Walter
Lassalle, Ferdinand
Latin America, guerilleros
Latsis, Martin
Latsis, Otto
Latvia; Gorbachev and use of force in; Nazi and Soviet mass killings; Soviet/Russian occupation
law: citizenship; lustration; Nuremberg Laws (1936). See also constitutions
Lazurkina, Comrade
leader charisma/personality cult; Communisti; Fascist; supreme leader
Lefort, Claude
Left: post-Communist. See also New Left; socialism
legal procedures: for crimes of Communist period. See also criminality; show trials
“legal revolution,”
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich; The Bolsheviks Must Assume Power and Marxism and Insurrection; and Bukharin; Comintern created by; dehumanization of the enemy; dissidents and; “end of politics,”; exterminist policies; Gorbachev and; “injection of consciousness,”; kto-kogo (who-whom principle); leader charisma; “Letter to a Comrade,”; Manichean view; Materialism and Empiriocriticism; mausoleum; mission; One Step Forward, Two Steps Back; personality; Philosophical Notebooks plot to arrest (1918); and proletariat; “return to,”; revolutionary situation (defined); utopia; vanguard party; What Is to Be Done?. See also Leninism
Leninism; ambivalence; authoritarianism; The Black Book of Communism and; collapse; critics; cult of totality; vs. democracy; ethnocentric nationalism as successor to; “goal rationality,”; Gorbachev break with; human rights movement and; ideology; and Marxism; “misdevelopment,”; modernity; New Economic Policy (NEP); October Revolution (1917); organizational model; party charisma; post-Communist paradoxes; post-Leninist Central and Eastern Europe; psychological leftovers; radical evil; “re-education,”; revisionism and; Romania; similarities with Fascism; Stalin and; takeover of power; three central myths of; ur-Leninism; violence; Yakovlev and. See also Bolshevism; Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
Levada, Yuri
Levesque, Jacques
Levinas, Emanuel
Levi, Primo, If This Is a Man
Levitsky, Steven
liberalism; anti-Marxist; capitalist; Cold War; Communism vs; democratic; dissidents and; Fascism vs.; vs. Gorbachev; nationalism and; post-Communism and; revisionists and; revolutions (1989-91) and; sixty-eighters and; Western; young Marx as ally of, See also humanism
liberalization, Communist regimes
Lichtheim, George
Lie. See Big Lie; falsification
Ligachev, Yegor
Lih, Lars
die Linke
Literaturnaya gazeta
Lithuania: Gorbachev and use of force in; Nazi and Soviet mass killings; political resurrection of Communist Party; Soviet/Russian occupation
London, Artur
Losonczy, Geza
Lozovsky, Solomon
Luca, Vasile
Lukács, Georg; “Bolshevism as a moral problem,”; History and Class Consciousness; Lenin; Marxist messianism; revisionism; revolutionary class; transindividual historical subject
Lukashenko, Alexander
Lukes, Steven
Lunacharsky, Anatoly
Lupi, Dario
lustration law
Luxemburg, Rosa; vs. power of Lenin and party
lying. See Big Lie; falsification
Machiavellianism
Mahler, Gustav
Maier, Charles
Makarenko, Anton
Malia, Martin; The Black Book of Communism foreword; and crimes of Communism; Lefort vs.; Pipes controversy; Sovietism
Malraux, André; La condition humaine
Manea, Norman
Manicheanism: East European Communist leaders; Lenin; Marxism; Russian tradition and