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  2. Joseph Stalin's cult of personality - Wikipedia

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    The cult of personality also adopted the Christian traditions of procession and devotion to icons through the use of Stalinist parades and effigies. By reapplying various aspects of religion to the cult of personality, the press hoped to shift devotion away from the church and towards Stalin. [14]

  3. On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences - Wikipedia

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    Exaggerations of Stalin's role in the Great Patriotic War (World War II). Deportations of whole nationalities. Doctors' plot and Mingrelian affair. Manifestations of personality cult: songs, city names and so on. Lyrics of the State Anthem of the Soviet Union (first version, 1944–1953), which had references to Stalin.

  4. Cult of personality - Wikipedia

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    Even under the communist regime, the Stalin cult of personality portrayed Stalin's leadership as patriarchy under the features laid out during Khrushchev's speech. [15] After 1936, the Soviet press described Stalin as the "Father of Nations". [140] One key element of Soviet propaganda was interactions between Stalin and the children of the ...

  5. Stalinism - Wikipedia

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    The cult of personality served to legitimate Stalin's authority, establish continuity with Lenin as his "discipline, student and mentee" in the view of his wider followers. [76] [81] His successor, Nikita Khrushchev, would later denounce the cult of personality around Stalin as contradictory to Leninist principles and party discourse. [82]

  6. De-Stalinization - Wikipedia

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    De-Stalinization (Russian: десталинизация, romanized: destalinizatsiya) comprised a series of political reforms in the Soviet Union after the death of long-time leader Joseph Stalin in 1953, and the thaw brought about by ascension of Nikita Khrushchev to power, [1] and his 1956 secret speech "On the Cult of Personality and Its ...

  7. Opinion: What the West gets wrong on Stalin and Putin - AOL

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    The question of Putin’s position on Stalinism suggests he is far from the all-powerful instigator of a Stalin cult and rather a manipulative manager of divergent, pro- and anti-Stalin societal ...

  8. History of the Soviet Union (1927–1953) - Wikipedia

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    Stalin's cult of personality reached its height in the postwar period, with his picture displayed in every school, factory, and government office, yet he rarely appeared in public. Postwar reconstruction proceeded rapidly, but as the emphasis was all on heavy industry and energy, living standards remained low, especially outside of the major ...

  9. List of cults of personality - Wikipedia

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    Hungarian Communist leader Mátyás Rákosi was surrounded by a cult of personality similar to that of Stalin. [51] This peaked on his 60th birthday in 1952, which was commemorated with a series of nationwide celebrations. [52] [53] Many things were named after him, including: the Manfréd Weiss Steel and Metal Works; the University of Miskolc