This book provides a history of political ideologies during the period famously
described by Eric Hobsbawn as "The Age of Extremes" -- from the First World War
to the collapse of the Soviet Union. "Ideologies in the Age of Extremes"
introduces the key ideologies of the age; liberalism, conservatism, communism,
and fascism.Willie Thompson identifies the political influence of mass movements
as a key feature. He uses a powerful approach that considers the different
ideologies in relation to each other. This allows him to show that they often
emerged from a common root or merged into a common future, stealing each other's
clothes and reinventing themselves as the