“…16 It has gained additional relevance in connection with the growth of manifest nationalist tendencies in the post-Soviet Russian communist movement (Bugera, 1994; Vujačić, 1994; Gregor, 1998). However, the usefulness of this approach is lost when, for instance, Samoilov (1993), in his three-volume comparative analysis of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao etc., defines fascism as ‘hunger for power’, or ‘evil’ expressed in political terms. Samoilov goes on to call Boris El'tsin and other liberal politicians with authoritarian tendencies ‘pro-’ or ‘half-fascist’.…”