The Russian political term leaderism (, vozhdism) means "a policy directed at the affirmation/confirmation of one person in the role of an indisputable or infallible leader".Viktor Ruchkin. S I Ozhegov, Slovar’ Russkogo Yazyka, Moscow 1978 via Manifestations of vozhdism include clientelism, nepotism, tribalism, and messianism.Вождизм article on Mir Slovarey site
Forms of leaderism include Italian fascism, Führerprinzip, Stalinism, Maoism, and Juche. According to Nikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948), Leninism represented a new type of leaderism, featuring a leader of masses having dictatorship powers, while Joseph Stalin as vozhd exemplifies an ultimate type of such a supreme leader.
In Marxist–Leninist phraseology, leaderism is a pejorative, in opposition to the officially proclaimed "principle of collective leadership".Slobodan Stanković, "The End of the Tito Era: Yugoslavia's Dilemmas", 1981, p. 59 As representative types of leaderist societies, some modern Russian authors argue include the regimes of Islamic leaders,Вожди и лидеры. Вождизм by Dmitry Olshansky and Vladimir Putin.Путин играет мускулами и добивается нового мирового порядка Kommersant 19 January 2009
See also Autocracy Caesarism Caudillo Cult of personality Dictatorship Strongman
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