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Author:   Alexey Tikhomirov ,  Jacqueline Friedlander
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.807kg
ISBN:  

9781666911893

ISBN 10:   1666911895
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   15 March 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1 The Premodern and Modern Foundations of Personality Cults Chapter 2 The Empire of Stalinism: The USSR and East Germany after 1945 Chapter 3 From the “Red Tyrant” to the “Liberator”: The Image of Stalin in the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany Chapter 4 “The Best Friend of the German People”: The Making of the Cult Community in the GDR Chapter 5 “The Fierce Enemy of the German People”: The Personality Cult and Iconoclasm in East Germany Chapter 6 “We Wanted to Make a God but He Turned Out to be the Devil”: The Politics and Practices of De-Stalinization in the GDR Conclusion Bibliography Index About the Author

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"Alexey Tikhomirov offers an innovative approach to this phenomenon by analyzing the export and reception of Stalin's cult in East Germany from 1945 to 1961: his method of entangled history opens new vistas. The study is well-grounded in Russian and German archival sources. It has plenty of archival photographs illustrating the indoctrination practices. The methodology that the author selected-- entangled history--proved most productive for analyzing a broad range of historical evidence and factors and raised historical research to a new level. -- ""The Russian Review"" Stalin's cult was a paradox: it should have never existed in a collectivist socialist polity. The export of Stalin's cult to East Germany, recently liberated from Hitler and his cult by the Red Army, was the ultimate paradox. Alexey Tikhomirov deftly tells the story of where the East German Stalin cult came from, how it was made, and what the population made of it. --Jan Plamper, University of Limerick The Stalin Cult in East Germany and the Making of the Postwar Soviet Empire, 1945--1991 offers an entangled history of the unique case of Sovietization in the German Democratic Republic and the transfer of the Stalin cult from the Soviet Union to its former enemy. This monograph is based on a variety of Russian and German archival sources. It analyzes the role of several different historical actors and casts light on both the organization and reception of the Stalin cult in East German society. Finally available in a revised and expanded English version, this book is invaluable for the study of the Soviet mission abroad, not only in East Germany and Eastern Europe, but also for understanding personality cults and communism globally. --R�sa Magn�sd�ttir, University of Iceland Tikhomirov leads his readers on the remarkable journey that saw East Germans replace the cult of the F�hrer with the cult of Stalin. His new archival material offers a fascinating glimpse into the East German reception of the myths, symbols, and rituals of communism's preeminent Big Brother. It is always challenging to gauge public opinion in a dictatorship, but it is hard to imagine coming closer to knowing exactly what East Germans made of their new master than we do in this outstanding book. --Gary Bruce, University of Waterloo Tikhomirov presents us with a comprehensively researched and carefully analyzed history of the Stalin cult in East Germany, from its foundations in the immediate postwar years to its demise with Khrushchev's de-Stalinization campaign. Particularly notable are his explorations of the shifting social and cultural meanings of the cult and of the iconoclasm that inevitably accompanied it. --Norman M. Naimark, Stanford University Tikhomirov's ground-breaking and highly original research on Soviet propaganda and the Stalin cult in East Germany represents archive-based cultural and social history at its very best. --Jeremy E. Taylor, University of Nottingham"

Alexey Tikhomirov offers an innovative approach to this phenomenon by analyzing the export and reception of Stalin's cult in East Germany from 1945 to 1961: his method of entangled history opens new vistas. The study is well-grounded in Russian and German archival sources. It has plenty of archival photographs illustrating the indoctrination practices. The methodology that the author selected-- entangled history--proved most productive for analyzing a broad range of historical evidence and factors and raised historical research to a new level.-- The Russian Review Stalin's cult was a paradox: it should have never existed in a collectivist socialist polity. The export of Stalin's cult to East Germany, recently liberated from Hitler and his cult by the Red Army, was the ultimate paradox. Alexey Tikhomirov deftly tells the story of where the East German Stalin cult came from, how it was made, and what the population made of it.--Jan Plamper, University of Limerick The Stalin Cult in East Germany and the Making of the Postwar Soviet Empire, 1945--1991 offers an entangled history of the unique case of Sovietization in the German Democratic Republic and the transfer of the Stalin cult from the Soviet Union to its former enemy. This monograph is based on a variety of Russian and German archival sources. It analyzes the role of several different historical actors and casts light on both the organization and reception of the Stalin cult in East German society. Finally available in a revised and expanded English version, this book is invaluable for the study of the Soviet mission abroad, not only in East Germany and Eastern Europe, but also for understanding personality cults and communism globally.--Rosa Magnusdottir, University of Iceland Tikhomirov leads his readers on the remarkable journey that saw East Germans replace the cult of the Fuhrer with the cult of Stalin. His new archival material offers a fascinating glimpse into the East German reception of the myths, symbols, and rituals of communism's preeminent Big Brother. It is always challenging to gauge public opinion in a dictatorship, but it is hard to imagine coming closer to knowing exactly what East Germans made of their new master than we do in this outstanding book.--Gary Bruce, University of Waterloo Tikhomirov presents us with a comprehensively researched and carefully analyzed history of the Stalin cult in East Germany, from its foundations in the immediate postwar years to its demise with Khrushchev's de-Stalinization campaign. Particularly notable are his explorations of the shifting social and cultural meanings of the cult and of the iconoclasm that inevitably accompanied it.--Norman M. Naimark, Stanford University Tikhomirov's ground-breaking and highly original research on Soviet propaganda and the Stalin cult in East Germany represents archive-based cultural and social history at its very best.--Jeremy E. Taylor, University of Nottingham

Stalin's cult was a paradox: it should have never existed in a collectivist socialist polity. The export of Stalin's cult to East Germany, recently liberated from Hitler and his cult by the Red Army, was the ultimate paradox. Alexey Tikhomirov deftly tells the story of where the East German Stalin cult came from, how it was made, and what the population made of it.--Jan Plamper, University of Limerick The Stalin Cult in East Germany and the Making of the Postwar Soviet Empire, 1945--1991 offers an entangled history of the unique case of Sovietization in the German Democratic Republic and the transfer of the Stalin cult from the Soviet Union to its former enemy. This monograph is based on a variety of Russian and German archival sources. It analyzes the role of several different historical actors and casts light on both the organization and reception of the Stalin cult in East German society. Finally available in a revised and expanded English version, this book is invaluable for the study of the Soviet mission abroad, not only in East Germany and Eastern Europe, but also for understanding personality cults and communism globally.--Rosa Magnusdottir, University of Iceland Tikhomirov leads his readers on the remarkable journey that saw East Germans replace the cult of the Fuhrer with the cult of Stalin. His new archival material offers a fascinating glimpse into the East German reception of the myths, symbols, and rituals of communism's preeminent Big Brother. It is always challenging to gauge public opinion in a dictatorship, but it is hard to imagine coming closer to knowing exactly what East Germans made of their new master than we do in this outstanding book.--Gary Bruce, University of Waterloo Tikhomirov presents us with a comprehensively researched and carefully analyzed history of the Stalin cult in East Germany, from its foundations in the immediate postwar years to its demise with Khrushchev's de-Stalinization campaign. Particularly notable are his explorations of the shifting social and cultural meanings of the cult and of the iconoclasm that inevitably accompanied it.--Norman M. Naimark, Stanford University Tikhomirov's ground-breaking and highly original research on Soviet propaganda and the Stalin cult in East Germany represents archive-based cultural and social history at its very best.--Jeremy E. Taylor, University of Nottingham

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Alexey Tikhomirov is assistant professor of East European history at Bielefeld University.

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