The Leadership Cult in Communist Dictatorships: Stalin and the Eastern Bloc - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1403934436 ISBN 13: 9781403934437

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

Synopsis

This is 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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About the Author:

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 Rákosi-kultusz kialakulása és megnyilvánulásai 1945 után, 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 Gábor T. Rittersporn and Malte Rolf, editors) Sphären von Öffentlichkeit in Gesellschaften Sowjetischen/ The Public Sphere in Soviet-Type Societies (Frankfurt on Main, 2003); (with Patrice G. Poutrus and Árpád von Klimó, editors) Anti -Amerikanismus im Kalten Krief: Deutscglabnd in Europäischen 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).

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1403934436
• ISBN 13: 9781403934437
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 307
• Editor: Apor B., Behrends J., Jones P., Rees E.