This text includes three case studies of leadership related to right-wing extremist violence on Czech territory in various historical eras. The first analyses the terrorist campaign of Vlajka (The Flag) at the end of the 1930s, the second racist skinhead murderers from Písek in 1993 and the third the structures which organized racist anti-Roma riots in Northern Bohemia in 2008. The specifics of actions carried out by a compact organisation with a formal leader and actions organized by informal subcultural local milieu with a local leader are explained, as well as multilevel” drivers of ethnic riots.