The Stalin Cult

Jan Plamper

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Altri dati

Formato:
Hardback
Editore:
Yale University Press
Anno di pubblicazione
2012
Lingua:
Inglese
Pagine:
352
Dimensioni:
254 X 178
Codice EAN:
9780300169522
Generi:
History, Contemporary History History, Europe Politics & Philosophy, Political Theory & Ideology Politics & Philosophy, Politics & Government
Altre informazioni:
62 black-&-white illustrations + 21 colour images
Prezzo di copertina:
$ 55,00

I contenuti

Between the late 1920s and the early 1950s, one of the most persuasive personality cults of all times saturated Soviet public space with images of Stalin. A torrent of portraits, posters, statues, films, plays, songs, and poems galvanized the Soviet population and inspired leftist activists around the world. In the first book to examine the cultural products and production methods of the Stalin cult, Jan Plamper reconstructs a hidden history linking artists, party patrons, state functionaries, and ultimately Stalin himself in the alchemical project that transformed a pock-marked Georgian into the embodiment of global communism. Departing from interpretations of the Stalin cult as an outgrowth of Russian mysticism or Stalin's psychopathology, Plamper establishes the cult's context within a broader international history of modern personality cults constructed around Napoleon III, Mussolini, Hitler, and Mao. Drawing upon evidence from previously inaccessible Russian archives, Plamper's lavishly illustrated and accessibly written study will appeal to anyone interested in twentieth-century history, visual studies, the politics of representation, dictator biography, socialist realism, and real socialism.

L'Autore

Jan Plamper is Dilthey Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin.

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The crafting, production, and canonization of Stalin's image was no simple endeavor. It involved technologies that gave Stalin's cult a particularly modern flavor. . . through this alchemy of institutional and individual power did Stalin's personality cult penetrate the psyche of the Soviet citizenry. --Sean Guillory, New Books in Russia and Eurasia --Sean Guillory New Books in Russia and Eurasia