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This book explores how the communist cult of the individual was not just a Soviet phenomenon but an international one. When Stalin died in 1953, the communists of all countries united in mourning the figure that was the incarnation of their cause. Though its international character was one of the distinguishing features of the communist cult of personality, this is the first extended study to approach the phenomenon over the longer period of its development in a truly transnational and comparative perspective. Crucially it is concerned with the internationalisation of the Soviet cults of Lenin and Stalin. But it also ranges across different periods and national cases to consider a wider cast of bureaucrats, tribunes, heroes and martyrs who symbolised both resistance to oppression and the tyranny of the party-state. Through studying the disparate ways in which the cults were manifested, Kevin Morgan not only takes in many of the leading personalities of the communist movement, but also some of the cultural luminaries like Picasso and Barbusse who sought to represent them. The cult of the individual was one of the most fascinating, troubling and revealing features of Stalinist communism, and as reconstructed here it offers new insight into one of the defining political movements of the twentieth century.

Communism. --- Bolshevism --- Communist movements --- Leninism --- Maoism --- Marxism --- Trotskyism --- Collectivism --- Totalitarianism --- Post-communism --- Socialism --- Village communities --- History, Modern. --- Russia-History. --- Civilization-History. --- Modern History. --- Russian, Soviet, and East European History. --- Cultural History. --- Modern history --- World history, Modern --- World history --- Russia—History. --- Europe, Eastern—History. --- Civilization—History. --- Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, --- Stalin, Joseph, --- 1917-1953 --- Soviet Union --- Soviet Union. --- Politics and government --- I-li-chʻi, --- Ilʹin, Vladimīr, --- Illiin, We., --- Lenin, --- Lenin, N., --- Lenin, Nicolai, --- Lenin, Nikolaj, --- Lenin, Niḳolay, --- Lenin, U. I. --- Lenin, Uladzimir Ilʹich, --- Lenin, Ṿ., --- Lenin, V. I. --- Lenin, Vi. Ai., --- Lenin, Vlagyimir Iljics, --- Lenin, W. I. --- Lenine, N., --- Lenine, Wladimir Ilitch Oulianof, --- L̦en̦ins, V. A. --- Lenjin, V. I., --- Lenjin, Vladimir Iljič, --- Lieh-ning, --- Liening, --- Līnīn, --- Oulianov, Vladimir, --- Ulianov, V. I., --- Ulʹi͡anov, V. --- Ulʹi͡anov, Vladimir Ilʹich, --- Uljanov, Vladimir Iljič, --- Ulyanoṿ, Ṿ., --- Djougatchvili, Iossif Vissarionovitch, --- Dzhugashvili, Iosif Vissarionovich, --- Istālīn, Yūsīf Vīsāryūnūvīch, --- Jughashvili, Ioseb, --- Jughashvili, Ioseb Vissarionovich, --- Jughashvili, Koba, --- Koba, --- Shih-tʻai-lin, --- Sidalin, --- Soselo, --- Ssu-ta-lin, --- Stalin, Giuseppe, --- Stalin, I. V. --- Stalin, Iosif, --- Stalin, Josef, --- Stalin, Josef Vissarionovich, --- Stalin, Jossif Vissarionovitš, --- Stalin, K., --- Sṭalin, Y., --- Sṭalin, Y. Ṿ., --- Staline, --- Staline, Joseph, --- Stalini, Ioseb Besarionis że, --- Staljin, J. V., --- Sutārin, --- Sztálin, Joszif, --- Джугашвили, Иосиф Виссарионович, --- Сталин, И. В. --- Сталин, Иосиф, --- Сталин, К., --- סטאלין, יאסיף, --- סטאלין, י. --- סטאלין, י. וו --- סטאלין, י. װ. --- סטאלין, י., --- סטלין, יוסיף ויסאריונוביץ׳, --- סטלין, יוסף --- 斯大林, --- استالين، يوسيف ويساريونووتج, --- Σταλιν, Ιωσηφ, --- Stalin, Ιōsēph, --- Lenin, Vladimir Il'ič --- Lenin, Vladimir Iljitsj --- Lenin, Wladimir Iljitsch --- Lenin, Vladímir Ilich --- Lénine, Vladimir Ilitch --- Lénine, Vladimir Iliç --- Lenin, Nikolaj --- Lenin, Nicolai --- Ul'janov, Vladimir Il'ič --- Oeljanov, Vladimir Iljitsj --- Uljanow, Wladimir Iljitsch --- Ulyanov, Vladimir Ilyich --- Uliánov, Vladímir Ilich --- Oulianov, Vladimir Ilitch --- Oulianov, Wladimir Iljitsch --- Ленин, Владимир Ильич, --- Ленин, В. И. --- Ulʹi︠a︡nov, V. --- Ульянов, В. --- Ulʹi︠a︡nov, Vladimir Ilʹich, --- Ульянов, Владимир Ильич, --- 列寧, --- לאנין, ולאדימיר --- לנין, וולדימיר איליץ, --- לנין, וו. אי --- לענין, וו.אי --- לענין, ניקאלאי --- לענין, ניקאלאי, --- לענין, נ. --- לענין, נ., --- לענין, װלאדימיר איליטש, --- לענין, װ. אי --- לענין, װ. אי., --- לענין, װ. י. --- לענין, װ.אי., --- לענינ, וולאדימיר איליטש --- لينين --- Ber. ha-M. --- Berit ha-Moʻatsot --- ESSD --- FSSR --- Ittiḥād al-Sūfiyīt --- Ittiḥād-i Jamāhīr-i Ishtirākīyah-i Shūrāʼīyah --- Ittiḥād-i Shūrav --- KhSHM --- PSRS --- Rusiyah --- Rusland --- Russia --- Russland --- Rusyah --- Sahaphāp Sōwīat --- Shūrav --- SNTL --- Sobhieṭ Ẏuniẏana --- Soi͡uz Radi͡ansʹkykh Sot͡sialistychnykh Respublik --- Soi͡uz Sovetskikh Sot͡sialisticheskikh Respublik --- Soi͡uz SSR --- Soṿet-Rusland --- Sovetakan Sotsʻialistakan Hanrapetutʻyunneri Miutʻyun --- Sovetakan Sotsʻialistakan Ṛespublikaneri Miutʻyun --- Sovetskiĭ Soi͡uz --- Sovetskiy Soyuz --- Soviyat Yūniyan --- Soyuz SSR --- SRSR --- SSHM --- SSR Kavširi --- SSṚM --- SSSR --- Su-lien --- Szovjetuni --- Tarybų Socialistinių Respublikų Sąjunga --- TSRS --- UdSSR --- Uni Soviet --- Uni Sovjet --- Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas --- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics --- Union soviétique --- Unione Sovietica --- URSS --- USSR --- Zȯvlȯlt Kholboot Uls --- ZSRR --- ZSRS --- Związek Radziecki --- Związek Socjalistycznych Republik Radzieckich --- Związek Socjalistycznych Republik Sowieckich