Illiberal Vanguard

Alexandar Mihailovic is professor emeritus of comparative literature and Russian at Hofstra University. His books include Corporeal Words: Mikhail Bakhtin's Theology of Discourse; The Mitki and the Art of Postmodern Protest in Russia, which was also published in a Russian translation; and an edited volume, Tchaikovsky and His Contemporaries: A Centenary Symposium. He is coauthor of Screening Solidarity: Neoliberalism and Transnational Cinemas.

Preface Introduction: The Neoglobalism of the American and Russian Far-Right Intelligentsia Chapter 1: A Place at the High Table: Mythologizing the Russian Intelligentsia, Crusading against US Elites Chapter 2: Whither the State? Steve Bannon, the Alt-Right, and Lenin's State and Revolution Chapter 3: Hijacking Academic Authority: Racism and the Internet Expertise of Kevin MacDonald and Alexander Dugin Chapter 4: The Spectacle of God's Will: Performing Homophobia in the Russian Federation Chapter 5: Statuary Performances: Monuments and Neopaganism in the United States and the Russian Federation Conclusion: The Fight against Rightist Elites Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index

"This book raises a crucial issue for our time. Mihailovic brings a scholarly eye and a sharp cross-cultural understanding to fill important gaps in our knowledge not only about rightist movements in both the United States and Russia but how they relate to each other."-Tom Nichols, contributing writer, The Atlantic and author of Our Own Worst Enemy "Sensitive to cultural differences, Alexandar Mihailovic's brilliantly articulate Illiberal Vanguard draws rich parallels between radical conservatives in both the United States and Russia and their strange alliance in the Internet age, focusing particularly on the emergence of a public-intellectual elite among them. This book is a must-read for those who would like to untangle the complicated roots of Russian and American neonationalism."-Edith W. Clowes, author of Russia on the Edge: Imagined Geographies and Post-Soviet Identity