The Leader Cult In Communist Dictatorships: Stalin And The Eastern Block - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1403934436 ISBN 13: 9781403934437

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

Riassunto

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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L'autore

S. DAVIES Senior Lecturer, University of Durham, UKB. ENNKER Professor of History, University of Tübingen, GermanyC. KELLY Professor of History, New College Oxford, UKA.V. KLIMO Visiting Professor, International University, Bremen, GermanyI. MAIN ResearcherA. MOCANESCU Researcher, University of Durham, UKJ. PLAMPER Research Fellow, University of Tübingen, GermanyA. PUTO Researcher, European University Institut, Florence, ItalyM. ROLF Assistant Lecturer, Department of History, Humbolt University, BerlinS. SRETENOVIC Researcher, European University Institut, Florence, ItalyM. WIEN Researcher, European University Institut, Florence, ItalyM. ZAREMBA Professor, University of Warsaw, Poland

Contenuti

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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• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1403934436
• ISBN 13: 9781403934437
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 298
• Redattore: Apor Balazs, Behrends Jan C., Jones Polly, Rees E. A.