Stalin's Cult of Personality

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  • Created on: 13-05-13 15:11
'Lenin of today'
Funeral speech, Lenin Enrolment, Natural Heir to the respect and reverence shown to Lenin
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The linking of ideas to individuals
Attacks on Trotskyism and Bukharinism, the creation of Stalinism
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Stalin was responsible for the personality
He did nothing to stop the cult from developing even though he had the power to do so.
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Stalin wasn't responsible for the Cult
Product of the media wanting to 'please' Stalin.
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Cult in Marxist-Leninism?
No it was inconsistent with Marxist or Leninist ideology.
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Stalin's daughter
Svetlana reported that Stalin detested the cult and found it oppressive.
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Psychology of adulation; terror didn't matter
Individuals swept along with the mass veneration, emotional investment that made people deeply reluctant to accept that they had been deceived.
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Easier to follow an individual than a set of ideals.
A need to thank someone; end of bread rationing 1935; protection from 'enemies'
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Psychological need for a leader to replace the Tsar's
Emphasised the way Lenin had already been deified despite objections
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Use of propaganda
Statues; Posters; 50th edition Pravda; Tsaritsyn to Stalingrad
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Attacks on Trotskyism and Bukharinism, the creation of Stalinism

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The linking of ideas to individuals

Card 3

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He did nothing to stop the cult from developing even though he had the power to do so.

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Card 4

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Product of the media wanting to 'please' Stalin.

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Card 5

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No it was inconsistent with Marxist or Leninist ideology.

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