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; Michaeclass="underline" 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