Dr. Leonid Luks is Professor Emeritus of Central and East European Contemporary History at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt. From 2011 to 2015, he was Director of the Institute for Central and East European Studies (ZIMOS) at Eichstaett. Luks studied History and Russian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and held lectureships at the universities of Erlangen, Munich, Bremen, and Cologne. Luks is editor-in-chief of the journals Forum für osteuropäische Ideen- und Zeitgeschichte and Forum noveishei vostochnoevropeiskoi istorii i kul'tury. He has published numerous books, papers, and commentaries on, among other topics, the communist theory of fascism, Polish and Russian history, totalitarianism, post-Soviet affairs, modern revolutions, current German historical discourse, and contemporary Russian political thought.