Vanguardism

Name: Vanguardism
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

VanguardismIdeology and Organization in Totalitarian Politics\nAuthor(s): Phillip W. Gray\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367331658, 978-0367331658\nSynopsis\nProviding an innovative conceptualization to extremist political movements founded upon \""world-historic\"" populations and vanguard party organizations, Vanguardism sets out a new path in investigating the intellectual and historical influences that created extremist politics, the totalitarian movements and regimes of the twentieth century, and a framework for interpreting extremism in the present. \n\nExpanding its view across the turbulent intellectual currents of the nineteenth century, Philip W. Gray illustrates how these ideas shaped the shared ideational and organizational structures that would develop into Leninism, Fascism, and Nazism in the early twentieth century. Moving beyond the Second World War, the book explicates how vanguardism did not van.