The leader cult in communist dictatorships

Titel: The leader cult in communist dictatorships : Stalin and the Eastern Bloc / ed. by Balzás Apor ...
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Veröffentlicht: Basingstoke : Palgrave MacMillan, 2004
Umfang: IX, 298 Seiten
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 1403934436 ; 9781403934437
  • Introduction: Leader Cults, Varieties and Preconditions
  • Part I
  • The Making Of The Cult: Methods And Individuals
  • Stalin and the Making of the Stalin Cult in the 1930s
  • 'A very modest man': Bbliogela Illblioges or How to Make a Career through the Leader Cult
  • Leader in the Making: The Role of Biographies in Constructing the Cult of Matyas Rakosi
  • Part II
  • The Functions Of The Leader Cult
  • The Stalin Cult, Bolshevik Rule and Kremlin Interactions in the 1930s
  • Grandpa Lenin and Uncle Stalin: Soviet Leader Cults for Little Children
  • Georgian Koba or Soviet 'Father of the Peoples'? The Stalin Cult and Ethnicity
  • Working Towards the Centre: Leader Cults and Spatial Politics in Pre-war Stalinism
  • Part III
  • Beyond Moscow: The Cult's Peripheries
  • Exporting the Leader: The Stalin Cult in Poland and East Germany (1944/45-1956)
  • President of Poland or 'Stalin's most faithfull pupil'? The Cult of Boleslaw Bierut in Stalinist Poland
  • Georgi Dimitrov: Three Manifestations of his Cult
  • Leader Cults in the Western Balkans (1945-1990): Josip Broz Tito and Enver Hoxha
  • Part IV
  • The Dilemmas Of De-Stalinisation: Change And Continuity In Leader Cult Patterns In The Post-Stalin Period'I've held, and I still hold Stalin in the highest esteem': Discourses and Strategies of Resistance to De-Stalinisation in the USSR, 1953-1962
  • Surviving 1956: Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and 'the cult of personality' in Romania
  • The Second Step of a Ladder: The Cult of the First Secretaries in Poland