The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power by Plamper, Jan

The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power

Between the late 1920s and the early 1950s, one of the most persuasive personality cults of all...
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Author: Jan Plamper
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The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power by Plamper, Jan

The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power

€79,82

The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power

€79,82
Author: Jan Plamper
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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.

Author: Jan Plamper
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 01/17/2012
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.79lbs
Size: 10.08h x 7.28w x 1.03d
ISBN: 9780300169522


Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2012

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


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