Name: The Stalin Cult in East Germany and the Making of the Postwar Soviet Empire, 1945-1961
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Author: Tikhomirov, Alexey ; Friedlander, Jacqueline
ISBN: 9781666911893

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The Stalin Cult in East Germany and the Making of the Postwar Soviet Empire, 1945-1961

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alexey Tikhomirov

Translated by

Jacqueline Friedlander

Publisher

Lexington Books

Language

English

Pages

384

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm

Weight

0.68 kg.

ISBN13

9781666911893

Synopsis "The Stalin Cult in East Germany and the Making of the Postwar Soviet Empire, 1945-1961"

This book examines the construction, dissemination, and reception of the Stalin cult in East Germany from the end of World War II to the building of the Berlin Wall. By exporting Stalin's cult to the Eastern bloc, Moscow aspired to symbolically unite the communist states in an imagined cult community pivoting around the Soviet leader. Based on Russian and German archives, this work analyzes the emergence of the Stalin cult's transnational dimension. On one hand, it looks at how Soviet representations of power were transferred and adapted in the former "enemy's" country. On the other hand, it reconstructs "spaces of agency" where different agents and generations interpreted, manipulated, and used the Stalin cult to negotiate social identities and everyday life. This study reveals both the dynamics of Stalinism as a political system after the Cold War began and the foundations of modern politics through mass mobilization, emotional bonding, and social engineering in Soviet-style societies. As an integral part of the global history of communism, this book opens up a comparative, entangled perspective on the ways in which veneration of Stalin and other nationalistic cults were established in socialist states across Europe and beyond.

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