The invisible shining
| Titel: | The invisible shining : the cult of Mátyás Rákosi in Stalinist Hungary, 1945-1956 / Balázs Apor |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Budapest; New York : Central European University Press, 2017 |
| Umfang: | XIV, 388 Seiten, 12 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln : Illustrationen |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 9789633861929 ; 9789633861936 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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X
- Abbreviations
- p. ix
- Acknowledgments
- p. xi
- Introduction
- p. 1
- The Stalinist Leader Cult: Origins, Interpretations and Functions
- p. 1
- The Stalinist Leader Cult in Postwar Eastern Europe
- p. 15
- The Stalinist Leader Cult in Hungary
- p. 24
- A Note on Terminology
- p. 27
- I
- The construction of the cult
- p. 31
- 1
- The Chronology of Cult Construction (1925-1953)
- p. 33
- Rakosi and the Hungarian Communists: The Road to Power
- p. 33
- Cultic Traditions and Modern Personality Cults in Hungary
- p. 39
- The "Hero of the Comintern": The Origins of the Rakosi Cult
- p. 45
- The Cult in the Party (1945-1947)
- p. 51
- The Legitimization Offensive (1948-1949)
- p. 64
- The Full-Blown Cult (1949-1953)
- p. 68
- 2
- The Institutions and Agents of Cult Construction
- p. 79
- Institutions of Cult-Building
- p. 80
- The Agents of the Cult
- p. 83
- Rákosi and the Rakosi Cult
- p. 86
- 3
- "The Biography is a Very Serious Issue": The Role of Biographies in Constructing the Rákosi Cult
- p. 95
- Biographies and Stalinist Political Culture
- p. 95
- The Biographies of Rakosi
- p. 101
- The Official Biography
- p. 106
- The Biographical Narrative
- p. 111
- Behind the Constructed Facade
- p. 120
- 4
- "He Was Created by a Thousand Years": Nationalism and the Leader Cult
- p. 127
- Nationalism and Communism
- p. 128
- Stalin, the Mini-Stalins, and National Traditions
- p. 131
- Rákosi, the Ultimate Freedom Fighter
- p. 135
- 5
- "Comrade Rákosi Lives with Us": The Visual and the Spatial Aspects of the Rákosi Cult
- p. 147
- Rákosi, the "Sacred Center"
- p. 150
- Visualizing the Leader
- p. 155
- The Spatial Allocation of Rákosi's Images
- p. 161
- Signposts of Progress: Renamings
- p. 167
- II
- Responses to the cult's Expansion
- p. 175
- 6
- "Love for Comrade Rakosi Has Become Deeper": The Communicative Influence of the Cult
- p. 177
- Popular Opinion and the Stalinist "Source Lens"
- p. 177
- The Popularity of the Leader
- p. 185
- The Elections of 1949
- p. 189
- The "Rakosi Constitution"
- p. 191
- "For Rakosi, thanks; for Rajk, the gallows!"
- p. 194
- "Even the Air Changes": Narratives of Rákosi's Words
- p. 195
- "Comrade Rákosi, Listen to My Problems as If You Were My Father": Letters to the Leader
- p. 199
- 7
- "Death to Uncle Rakosi!" Negative Perceptions of the Cult
- p. 209
- Critiques and Iconoclasts
- p. 212
- Jokes and Political Rumors
- p. 219
- 8
- Ignorance is Bliss: Popular Indifference and the Shortcomings of Communist Propaganda
- p. 231
- The Cult's Audience
- p. 234
- The Cult"'s Agents
- p. 239
- The Rakosi Cult: Circulation and Responses
- p. 255
- III
- The Dismantling Of The Cult
- p. 261
- 9
- The "New Course" and the Decay of the Rakosi Cult, 1953-1956
- p. 263
- The Death of Stalin and the Rakosi Cult
- p. 266
- Cult Criticism in 1953-1956
- p. 271
- 10
- The Collapse of the Rákosi Cult
- p. 299
- The Twentieth Congress and the "Secret Speech"
- p. 299
- "We Were Surprised by the Twentieth Congress": The Effects of the "Secret Speech" on the Rákosi Cult
- p. 302
- "It Hurts to See Comrade Rákosi Leave Like This": Rakosi's Abdication and the Uprising of 1956
- p. 315
- "We Should Not Let Even the Illusion of the Personality Cult Appear": Denouncing the Cult in the Kádár Era
- p. 319
- From Politics to History
- p. 325
- The "Withering Away" of the Rakosi Cult
- p. 327
- Conclusion
- p. 335
- Bibliography
- p. 345
- Index
- p. 377
