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The Invisible Shining The Cult of Mátyás Rákosi in Stalinist Hungary, 19451956
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The Invisible Shining [electronic resource] : The Cult of Mátyás Rákosi in Stalinist Hungary, 19451956 / Balázs Apor.
ISBN
9789633861936
9789633861929 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
Published
New York : Central European University Press, 2017. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
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Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2018 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2018 History.
Project MUSE - 2018 Russian and East European Studies.
Other formats
Online version: Apor, Balázs, author. "Invisible shining" Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2017
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 10, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: The Stalinist leader cult : origins, interpretations, and functions
Part I. The construction of the cult
The chronology of cult construction (1925-1953)
The institutions and agents of cult construction
"The biography is a very serious issue" : the role of biographies in constructing the Rákosi cult
"He was created by a thousand years" : nationalism and the leader cult
"Comrade Rákosi lives with us" : the visual and the spatial aspects of the Rákosi cult
Part II. Responses to the cult's expansion
"Love for Comrade Rákosi has become deeper" : the communicative influence of the cult
"Death to Uncle Rákosi!" : negative perceptions of the cult
Ignorance is bliss : popular indifference and the shortcomings of communist propaganda
Part III. The dismantling of the cult
The "new course" and the decay of the Rákosi cult, 1953-1956
The collapse of the Rákosi cult.
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