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
Mann, Michael
Mann, Thomas
Maoism: in evolution of communism; moral-humanist Marxism chasm
Mao Zedong: on “modern revisionism,”; rebels against; revolutionary passion; supreme leader. See also Maoism
maquis, vs. Nazis
Marcou, Lilly
Margolin, Jean-Louis
Margolius, Rudolf market economies. See also capitalism
Markisch, Peretz
Marković, Mihailo
Marks, Steven G., How Russia Shaped the Modern World
Márkus, György; Dictatorship over Needs (Heller, Fehér, and Márkus),
Martin, Terry
Marwick, Arthur
Marx, Karl; authoritarian personality; and class consciousness; de-Stalinization and; Eleventh Thesis on Feuerbach; The German Ideology; “heretics,”; Marx-Engels Archive; and proletariat; revisionism and; Theses on Feuerbach. See also Communist Manifesto
Marxism; authoritarian-voluntaristic; class struggle central to; critical; culpability; deradicalization; de-Stalinization and; disenchantment with; eschatology; freedom; and humanism; ideology; vs. individual; institutional and intellectual; internationalism; Leninism and; “Marxist Darwinism,”; millennialist; monism; Nazism’s affinities with; neo-Marxists; and Nietzsche; non-Leninist versions; party mysticism; post-Marxism; revisionism; revolutionary; science; Soviet-style; Stalin and; theodicy; utopia; violence sanctified by; Western. See also Communism
mass murder. See also exterminist policies; genocide; Holocaust; purges; terror
Matustik, Martin
Mauss, Marcel
Mayakovsky, Vladimir
Mazowiecki, Tadeusz
Mečiar, Vladimir
memory: of Communist crimes; competitive regimes of; ethnicization of; of Holocaust; hypermnesia; mismemory. See also amnesia
Mensheviks; Bukharin and; comparison between Nazism and Communism; exiled; Jews associated with (by Stalin); Lenin vs.; Russian tradition; split with Bolsheviks
Merker, Paul
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, Humanism and Terror
messianism; Communist; Fascist; post-Communism. See also charismatic politics; redemptive mythologies
Meszáros, István
Michnik, Adam: campaign against; “From humanity, through nationality, to barbarity,”; individuality; new evolutionism; “perestroika virus,”; “perfect society,”; revisionism; revolutions (1989-91); shared vision of public good; “velvet restoration,”; “West of center,”
millennialism; Fascist; Leninist; Marxist. See also chiliasms; eschatology
Mills, C. Wright
Milošević-style expansionist chauvinism
Milosz, Czeslaw
Mints, Isaac
mismemory. See also amnesia; falsification
mission: Communist; Fascist
Mladenov, Petar
Mlynář, Zdeněk; The State and the Individual; “Towards a Democratic Political Organization of Society,”; “What to Do with the Party?” (with Gorbachev)
modernity; Communism and; Fascist; identity myths; illiberal; liberal; nationalism; post-Communism; revisionism and
Modrow, Hans
Modzelewski, Karol, 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 Kuroń)
Molotov, Vyacheslav
Mongolia
monism: avoiding; Marxism
Monnerot, Jules
morality; Communism and; dissidents and; Fascism and; moral blindness; post-Communist; reinvention of politics; revisionism and; revolutions (1989-91) and. See also criminality; evil; truth
Moravia, Communist Party
Müller, Jan-Werner
murder: class murder (“sociocide”). See also mass murder
Mussolini, Benito; death (1945); differences from Communists; Enciclopedia Italiana contribution; leader charisma; mission; My Autobiography; one-party system; Rocco with
mysticism: Communist; Hitler. See also charismatic politics; messianism; sacralization
mythologies: anti-Fascism; Bolshevik; civil society as; dialectics as instrument of; exclusionist; Judeo-Bolsheviks; “Judeo-Masonic conspiracies,”; Judeo-plutocracy; Marxism-Leninism; nationalist; post-Communist; proletariat; salvationist fantasies; Soviet system. See also millennialism; redemptive mythologies
Nagy, Imre
Naimark, Norman
“nanny,” yearning for the state as
National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives
nationalism; anti-Communist; Communist Manifesto and; dangers of; ethnocentric; “Jewish bourgeois,”; polycentric vs. ethnocentric; post-Communist; radical; Russian; salvationism; socialist; specters of; during World War I
National Socialism. See Nazism
National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) NATO
Naumov, Oleg V.
Nazism; biological distinctionsi; civilization; Communism “more evil” than; defeat; dehumanization of the enemy; differences between Communism and; disenchantment; East and Central Europe dictatorships admiring; ethnic cleansing; evil identified by; genocidal; ideology; intentionality; leader charisma; and morality; Nazi Party (NSDAP); number of victims; Nuremberg Laws (1936); one-party system; party charisma; resistance to; show trials not used by; similarities with Communism; Soviet citizens sent back to USSR; Soviet-Nazi “nonaggression” pact (1939); terror. See also Hitler, Adolf; Nazism vs. Jews
Nazism vs. Jews; comparing Nazism and Communism; exterminist policies; genocidal; Jews seeking refuge in USSR from. See also Holocaust
Nechaev, Sergey; Revolutionary Catechism
neo-authoritarianism
neo-Communism
neo-Marxists
neo-Stalinism
Neruda, Pablo
Neumann, Heinz
New Economic Policy (NEP)
new evolutionism
New Faith
New Left: Socialist; Western
New Man
“new thinking,”
New York Review of Books
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Night of the Long Knives (1934)