“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
“A seminal, informative, and impressively insightful work of meticulous and deftly scripted, organized and presented scholarship, Illiberal Vanguard: Populist Elitism in the United States and Russia is a timely contribution. . . . A critically important and highly recommended addition.”—Midwest Book Review