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vanguard and official
As epitomised in the slogan “ Freedom in Discussion, Unity in Action ”, Lenin followed the example of the First International ( IWA, International Workingmen ’ s Association, 1864 – 1876 ), and organised the Bolsheviks as a democratically centralised vanguard party, wherein free political-speech was recognised legitimate until policy consensus ; afterwards, every member of the Party would be expected to uphold the official policy established in consensus.
In 1950, the party, which viewed itself as the vanguard of the working class, reported that people of proletarian origin held 64 % of party offices and 40 % of higher government posts, while results of the recruitment efforts remained below official expectations.

vanguard and U
A " vanguard force " of 3, 000 to 3, 500 U. N. troops is not expected to arrive until later in the week, at the earliest.
Nagumo's main body positioned itself behind the vanguard and advanced forces in order to more easily remain hidden from U. S. reconnaissance aircraft.
In fact, Abe's vanguard force and Kondo's advance force were steaming south to try to catch the U. S. carrier task forces in a surface battle, but they turned around at midnight without having made contact with the U. S. warships.
It was still shuffling when Sputnik's beeps told the world that Russia's satellite program, not the U. S .' s, was the vanguard.
" According to this MIM statement, it is at this point that MIM formed and began to consider itself the vanguard party in the U. S.
The other major section of the RYM, referred to as Revolutionary Youth Movement II, were Maoist-oriented and rejected the Weathermen's line of immediate armed struggle in the U. S., advocating building a new revolutionary vanguard party instead.
In the grim days of 1949 and 1950, as the CP was about to be driven out of the CIO and much of the U. S. labor movement, many CPUSA leaders now saw their work among the white working class as a failure and the black working class as the " vanguard of the revolution ".

vanguard and .
in the United States the initiation of militant anti-Communism, with the repentant ex-Communist in the vanguard.
Hiding his main body of troops in a wood, he stationed as bait a smaller vanguard in open ground before the wood.
As expected, the Bastarnae attacked the vanguard in force, only to find themselves entangled in the full-scale pitched battle with the Romans that they had tried to avoid.
The Dauphin attacked Salisbury and pressed his advance in spite of heavy shot by the English archers and complications of running into the retreating vanguard of Clermont's force.
However, he had made a serious misjudgement: there was enough room between Guerrier and the shoal for an enemy ship to cut across the head of the French line, allowing the unsupported vanguard to be caught in a crossfire by two divisions of enemy ships.
To counter this effect, Nelson ordered HMS Theseus under Captain Ralph Miller to pass his flagship and join Zealous and Goliath in the vanguard.
With the French vanguard now heavily outnumbered, the following British ships HMS Bellerophon and HMS Majestic passed by the melee and advanced on the so far unengaged French centre.
Taken together, these composers can be seen as the vanguard of a broad change in style and the center of music.
In 1989 Gorbachev allowed other political associations ( de facto political parties ) to coexist with the Communist Party and in 1990 obtained the repeal of Article Six of the USSR constitution which gave the party supremacy over all institutions in society, thus ending its vanguard status.
The vanguard, with which Queen Eleanor marched, was commanded by her Aquitainian vassal, Geoffrey de Rancon ; this, being unencumbered by baggage, managed to reach the summit of Cadmos, where de Rancon had been ordered to make camp for the night.
The fascist party is a vanguard party designed to initiate a revolution from above and to organize the nation upon fascist principles.
While fascism opposes Bolshevism, both Bolshevism and fascism have been noted to hold significant ideological similarities: both advocate a revolutionary ideology, both believe in the necessity of a vanguard elite, both have disdain for bourgeois values, and both had totalitarian ambitions.
However both Bolshevism and fascism hold ideological similarities: both advocate a revolutionary ideology, both believe in the necessity of a vanguard elite, both have disdain for bourgeois values, and both had totalitarian ambitions.
Freikorps units fought both for and against the German state and formed the vanguard of the Nazi movement.
On the left, the vanguard of the war of 1918 was the most radical urban Red Guards and Workers ' Security Guards from Helsinki, Kotka and Turku ; they led the rural Reds, and convinced those leaders of the Social Democrats who wavered between peace and war to support revolution.
On the right, the vanguard of the war was the Jägers who had been moved to Finland by the end of 1917, and the most active volunteer White Guards of Viipuri province in the southeastern corner of Finland, southwestern Finland, and southern Ostrobothnia.
In the 16th century, Spain and Portugal were in the vanguard of European global exploration and colonial expansion.
The Bolsheviks, under Vladimir Lenin, advocated the formation of a small elite of professional revolutionists, subject to strong party discipline, to act as the vanguard of the proletariat in order to seize power by force.
Another major division within Islamism is between the fundamentalist " guardians of the tradition " of the Salafism or Wahhabi movement, and the " vanguard of change " centered on the Muslim Brotherhood.
Under Russian control, Latvia was in the vanguard of industrialisation and the abolition of serfdom so that by the end of the 19th century it had become one of the most developed parts of the Russian Empire.

vanguard and force
* October 24 – Napoleonic Wars – Battle of Maloyaroslavets: An inconclusive encounter between the French vanguard and a Russian force leads Napoleon to decide to retreat along the same line as his advance, with disastrous results.
At about 4: 20 pm the battle began with Lieutenant Henderson's NNH troopers, stationed behind the Oscarberg, briefly engaging the vanguard of the main Zulu force.
Around 8: 00 am, another force appeared, and the redcoats abandoned their breakfast to man their position again ; however the force turned out to be the vanguard of Lord Chelmsford's relief column.
At the start of the Franco-Prussian War, Saarbrücken was the first target of the French invasion force which drove off the Prussian vanguard and occupied Alt-Saarbrücken on 2 August 1870.
Before that time, he helped to relieve the vanguard at the Battle of Dorylaeum after it had been pinned down by the Seljuk Turks under Kilij Arslan I, with the help of the other crusader princes in the main force and went on to sack the Seljuk camp.
The horsemen managed to keep the Dutch vanguard busy, but the envelopment of the main allied force failed.
A Yorkist force under John Neville raced north in vanguard of Edward's larger force and the two sides met outside Hexham on 14 May 1464.
Cheng Ji and his men were surrounded by the Wu vanguard force but they managed to hold on by sinking the smaller enemy boats.
Meanwhile, the isolated Shu vanguard force at Yidao was also completely destroyed by Wu forces.
They ran into Cao Cao's vanguard army and were preparing for engagement when Cao's main force arrived.
The arrival on May 6 of a small British fleet carrying 200 regulars ( the vanguard of a much larger invasion force ), accelerated the American preparations to depart.
Huang Zhong had volunteered to lead a vanguard force to vanquish both camps, which Liu Bei approved, when Wei Yan voiced his doubts over the aged Huang's physical ability.
Just at this time, an enemy vanguard force had arrived.
They then planted a false distress signal in the hopes of luring a ship from the other universe into their own ( presumably with the intention of capturing the ship and using it as the vanguard of an invasion force ).
Hannibal then sent a small skirmish force to draw the vanguard away from the front of the line, in order to split the Roman forces.

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