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The first book to analyze the distinct leader cults that flourished in the era of 'High Stalinism' as an integral part of the system of dictatorial rule in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Fifteen studies explore the way in which these cults were established, their function and operation, their dissemination and reception, the place of the cults in art and literature, the exportation of the Stalin cult and its implantment in the communist states of Eastern Europe, and the impact which de-Stalinisation had on these cults.

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Author:   B. Apor ,  J. Behrends ,  P. Jones ,  E. Rees
Publisher:   Palgrave USA
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   2004 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.545kg
ISBN:  

9781403934437

ISBN 10:   1403934436
Pages:   298
Publication Date:   11 October 2004
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Leader Cults, Varieties and Preconditions; E.A.Rees PART I: THE MAKING OF THE CULT: METHODS AND INDIVIDUALS Stalin and the Making of the Stalin Cult in the 1930s; S.Davies 'A Very Modest Man': Béla Illés or How to Make a Career through the Leader Cult; Á.V.Klimó Leader in the Making: The Role of Biographies in Constructing the Cult of Mátyás Rákosi; B.Apor PART II: THE FUNCTIONS OF THE LEADER CULT The Stalin Cult, Bolshevik Rule and Kremlin Interactions in the 1930s; B.Ennker Grandpa Lenin and Uncle Stalin: Soviet Leader Cults for Little Children; C.Kelly Georgian Koba or Soviet 'Father of the Peoples'? The Stalin Cult and Ethnicity; J.Plamper Working Towards the Centre: Leader Cults and Spatial Politics in Pre-war Stalinism; M.Rolf PART III: BEYOND MOSCOW: THE CULT'S PERIPHERIES Exporting the Leader: The Stalin Cult in Poland and East Germany (1944/45-1956); J.C.Behrends President of Poland or 'Stalin's Most Faithfull Pupil'? The Cult of Boleslaw Bierut in Stalinist Poland; I.Main Georgi Dimitrov: Three Manifestations of his Cult; M.Wien Leader Cults in the Western Balkans (1945-1990): Josip Broz Tito and Enver Hoxha; S.Sretenovic & A.Puto 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; P.Jones Surviving 1956: Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and 'The Cult of Personality' in Romania; A.Mocanescu The Second Step of a Ladder: The Cult of the First Secretaries in Poland; M.Zaremba

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B. Apor studied at Debrecen University, and is currently a postgraduate researcher at the European University Institute, Florence, where he is working on a thesis on the cult of Matyas Rakosi in Hungary. He is the author of A Rakosi-kultusz kialakulasa es megnyilvanulasai 1945 utan, Sic Itur Ad Astra. J.C. Behrends is Research Fellow at the Herder-Institut, Marburg, Germany. He specializes in the modern history of Germany, Poland and Russia, and in the comparative study of dictatorships. His publications include: (with Thomas Lindenberger and Patrice G. Poutrus, editors) Fremde unde Fremd-Sein in der DDR (Berlin, 2003); (with Gabor T. Rittersporn and Malte Rolf, editors) Spharen von Offentlichkeit in Gesellschaften Sowjetischen/The Public Sphere in Soviet-Type Societies (Frankfurt on Main, 2003); (with Patrice G. Poutrus and Arpad von Klimo, editors) Anti-Amerikanismus im Kalten Krief: Deutscglabnd in Europaischen Vergleich (Bonn, 2004). P. Jones received her DPhil from the University of Oxford for a dissertation on strategies of demythologisation in Post-Stalinism and Post-Leninism. She is a Junior Research Fellow at Worcester College Oxford, and is completing her PhD on the Stalin cult and de-Stalinisation. She is the author of From Stalinism to post-Stalinism: De-mythologising Stalin, 1953-56, in H. Shukman, ed., Redefining Stalinism (London, 2003). E.A. Rees is Professor of Eastern European History at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy, and is currently on leave from the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham. He is the author of Political Thought from Machiavelli to Stalin: Revolutionary Machiavellism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). He is the editor of The Nature of Stalin's Dictatorship: The Politburo, 1924-1953 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), Centre-Local Relations in the Stalinist State, 1928-1941 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), and Decision-Making in the Stalinist Command Economy, 1932-37 (Palgrave Macmillan, 1997).

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