The Devil in History

ethnocentricity: nationalist. See also ethnic cleansing; ethnicization; racialization/de-racialization

“European civil war,”

Europeanization, East and Central Europe

European Union (EU)

evil; Bolshevik New Faith and; Communism “more evil” than Nazism; of Communist regimes; enemies of Communism and Fascism; Kant’s “Concerning the Indwelling of the Evil Principle with the Good, or, on the Radical Evil in Human Nature,”; Nazi enemies; salvationism and; Stalinism and; traditional morality. See also criminality; devil; falsification; radical evil

Evola, Julius

experiments, on human beings

exterminist policies: extermination camps; Leninist; Nazi; Stalinist. See also genocide; purges

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

Feher, Ferenc; Dictatorship over Needs (Heller, Feher, and Markus)

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, Francois; Passing of an Illusion/Le passe d’une illusion; “Sur l’illusion communiste,”

Garton Ash, Timothy; The Magic Lantern; Ottomanization

gas chamber. See Holocaust

Gauck, Joachim

Gellately, Robert

Geminder, Bedrich

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, Andre

Gill, Graeme

Gioventu fascista

Girard, Rene

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 Mlynar); “young policy academic elite,”

Gorky, Maxim

Gorshenin, K. P.

Gorz, Andre

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;