Stalin Cult - A Study in the Alchemy of Power

Informationen zum Autor Jan Plamper is Dilthey Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. Klappentext The first book to examine the cultural products and production methods of the Stalin cult; the torrent of portraits, posters, statues, films, plays, songs and poems which galvanized the Soviet population. Zusammenfassung Examining the cultural products and production methods of the Stalin cult! the author reconstructs a hidden history linking artists! party patrons! state functionaries! and ultimately Stalin himself in the alchemical project that transformed a pock-marked Georgian into the embodiment of global communism.

Product details

• Authors: Jan Plamper, Plamper Jan
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.02.2012
• EAN: 9780300169522
• ISBN: 978-0-300-16952-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 184 mm x 260 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Yale-Hoover Series on Stalin,; Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes; Yale-Hoover Series on Stalin
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science