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What is meant by charismatic leadership?
Click on this link to the University of Missouri
to give you help with what is meant by charismatic leadership. The pages
offer a checklist of what makes someone ‘charismatic’. The examples given
are generally US figures of the 1960’s, but use the checklist to compare it
against your chosen charismatic leaders.
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Charisma Article
with a sociological bent by Thomas Robbin in the Encyclopedia of Religion
and Society
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Charismatic Authority Concise article by Austin Cline subtitled:
Emotional Bonds Between Leaders and Followers. Gives a theoretical basis for
your study of the dictators.
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Secrets of leadership: Hitler & Churchill. Andrew
Roberts draws comparisons between Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler, and
between true inspiration and mere charisma, in an analysis of what
leadership entails.
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When little men become big. (how destructive leaders become
powerful through group dynamics)
Joseph H. Berke article in History Today. Focus is
on Hitler's rise but relates issues in a wider, modern context.
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casahistoria
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for updates and current topic news
2. Political
ideologies of the Left
See
also the casahistoria pages on
Lenin
·
Stalin
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Mao Tse-Tung
and
Castro
Many
links are now dead but still a good place to see explanations of the
differences between Communism, Socialism, Trotskyism, Democratic Marxism,
and many other "-isms."
Marx and Engels Collection
Very large collection of speeches and writing.
Set out chronologically from the Marx2Mao site.
Marxism
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Marxism
Made Simple
An interesting, visually
zippy overview of Marxism, with a Marxist slant and an inclusion of
different contemporary views of Marxism with modern analogies. However, the
site may bombard you with ads and requests to download other programmes ....
Marxism and capitalism??
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Encyclopedia of Marxism
An excellent resource - divided into
glossaries of people, places, events, organizations, terms, and periodicals
dealing with Marxism.
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Marxist Dreams and Soviet
Realities
An excellent essay from historian Ralph
Raico (professor of history at the State
University College at Buffalo and a senior fellow of the Institute for
Humane Studies at George Mason University) on the ideology of the
Soviet Union.
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Marxist Internet Archive
A vast collection of full-text works and references
ranging from the writings of Lenin to the Soviet Constitution. Includes a
Students section
on Learning what Marxism is about.
- Marx and Engels
Collection Very large collection of speeches and writing. Set out
chronologically from the Marx2Mao site.
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Communist Manifesto
The Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
classic, online in full.
Communism
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The Museum of Communism.
An anti communist site set up by the University of
George Mason, Virginia. It does have interesting entries on:
Leninism
See
the casahistoria section
Lenin: Ideas on the
casahistoria
Lenin
page
Stalinism
See
the casahistoria section
Stalinism on the casahistoria
Stalin pages
Anarchism
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Anarchy Archives Very useful site with comprehensive
coverage of key anarchists and anarchist events. Hint: use the navigation
bar above each picture to access the online collected works and
publications, commentaries, bios. Includes micro sites for
Proudhon,
Bakunin,
Malatesta,
Kropotkin amongst others.
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For jihadist, read anarchist
Article (Aug 2005) from The Economist. Looks at 19th century
anarchism attacks and compares them with the present. Useful
survey of anarchist attacks.
casahistoria
home visit
caféhistoria
for updates and current topic news
3. Political
ideologies of the Right
Fascism
See
also casahistoria pages on
Fascism
& Mussolini
·
Hitler
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Franco
·
Peron
and
The South American Military Regimes

A
clear and concise account of the origins and development of Fascism by Dr C
Jazwinski.
The original site is now dead. This is a copy.
What is
Fascism
Some General
Ideological Features by Matthew N. Lyons, an independent scholar and
freelance writer who studies reactionary and supremacist movements.
Fascism in Europe: Documents and articles
Excellent selection from the Mosaic Perspectives on
western civilisation site
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Fascist Ideology
This page is for educational
purposes, and a project for a history course at the US Dickinson
College....The red background is grim though.........
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Features of Fascism as defined by Umberto Eco
set out very clearly in a
table form with edited examples of modern examples of fascism.
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'The Anatomy of Fascism' By Zeev Sternhell, Reply by Adrian Lyttelton
from New York Review of Books
Fascism: A Reader's Guide
Edited by Walter Laqueur. This is the extract by Zeev
Sternhell, Colorado College from Laqueur. Academic survey of the movement.
The Nature of Fascism Extract
from the Roger Griffin book, (St. Martin's Press, 1991), where he attempts
to define "generic fascism," - the term he uses for those characteristics
which are found in all fascist movements and ideologies, from Mussolini's
Fascist Party to contemporary neo-fascist organizations.
The
functions of fascism. (Download link is at the bottom of the page).
Podcast lecture by Michel Parenti who argues that fascism is a new order and
consciousness that served the same old power structure and promised to solve
the ills of the many while protecting the interests of the few. He answers
in detail who financed the Fascist parties and what services the fascists
rendered in return. Podcast by
a-Infos Radio project
Economic Fascism
Looks at the broader global appeal of fascism in the inter
war period - especially to industrialists. By Thomas J. DiLorenzo 1994 in
Truth
Seeker
Race and Visualism
Interesting look at impact of fascism (and other influences) on how society
has visualised itself. By
William
Washabaugh
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Trotsky on Fascism - What It
Is and How To Fight It
Discover
Leo Trotsky's attitude towards fascism through a pamphlet he wrote in the
1930's. Read his definition of the movement.
Italian Fascism
Ideas
behind National Socialism
See
also casahistoria page on Hitler
Peronism
See
also casahistoria page on
Peron
casahistoria
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for updates and current topic news
4.
Comparisons: Single Party States
click
here to go to
the casahistoria table comparing the totalitarian regimes
of
Stalin,
Lenin,
Castro,
Peron,
Mussolini & Hitler.
Includes comparisons of :
casahistoria
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