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The Leader Cult in Communist Dictatorships: Stalin and the Eastern Bloc B. Apor, J. Behrends, P. Jones and E. A. Rees (eds.), Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 312 pp. ISBN 1403934436 54.00 [pounds sterling]
The topic of the leader cult, or 'cult of personality', (1) has consistently been recognised as an integral part of the Stalinist regimes in Eastern Europe. Yet up until now, there have been no publications devoted entirely to this topic. The Leader Cult in Communist Dictatorships; Stalin and the Eastern Bloc seeks to redress this lacuna. An edited volume that was developed as a result of a conference held at the European University Institute, Florence, in May 2003, the book announces itself as 'the first book to examine the nature of the highly distinctive leader curs of 'High Stalinism' in the USSR and Eastern Europe as a political, sociological and cultural phenomenon'. Utilising a wide range of both new archival resources and well known narratives, this book is a must read for all students of Soviet and East European studies.
This book is delivered in four parts. The first three chapters are primarily an historical investigation, in that they focus on how the...
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