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The Leader Cult in Communist Dictatorships

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Leader Cults: Varieties, Preconditions and Functions
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    Chapter 2 Stalin and the Making of the Leader Cult in the 1930s
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    Chapter 3 ‘A Very Modest Man’: Béla Illés, or How to Make a Career through the Leader Cult
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    Chapter 4 Leader in the Making: The Role of Biographies in Constructing the Cult of Mátyás Rákosi
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    Chapter 5 The Stalin Cult, Bolshevik Rule and Kremlin Interaction in the 1930s
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    Chapter 6 Grandpa Lenin and Uncle Stalin: Soviet Leader Cult for Little Children
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    Chapter 7 Georgian Koba or Soviet ‘Father of Peoples’? The Stalin Cult and Ethnicity
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    Chapter 8 Working Towards the Centre: Leader Cults and Spatial Politics in Pre-war Stalinism
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    Chapter 9 Exporting the Leader: The Stalin Cult in Poland and East Germany (1944/45–1956)
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    Chapter 10 President of Poland or ‘Stalin’s Most Faithful Pupil’? The Cult of Bolesław Bierut in Stalinist Poland
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    Chapter 11 Georgi Dimitrov: Three Manifestations of his Cult
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    Chapter 12 Leader Cults in the Western Balkans (1945–90): Josip Broz Tito and Enver Hoxha
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    Chapter 13 ‘I’ve Held, and I Still Hold, Stalin in the Highest Esteem’: Discourses and Strategies of Resistance to De-Stalinisation in the USSR, 1953–62
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    Chapter 14 Surviving 1956: Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and the ‘Cult of Personality’ in Romania
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    Chapter 15 The Second Step of a Ladder: The Cult of the First Secretaries in Poland
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Title
The Leader Cult in Communist Dictatorships
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan UK, January 2004
DOI 10.1057/9780230518216
ISBNs
978-1-349-51714-5, 978-0-230-51821-6
Editors

Apor, Balázs, Behrends, Jan C., Jones, Polly, Rees, E. A.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Poland 1 4%
Unknown 25 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 27%
Student > Master 4 15%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 3 12%
Researcher 3 12%
Student > Bachelor 2 8%
Other 4 15%
Unknown 3 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 11 42%
Social Sciences 8 31%
Linguistics 1 4%
Environmental Science 1 4%
Physics and Astronomy 1 4%
Other 1 4%
Unknown 3 12%