@article{778755,
      recid = {778755},
      author = {Morgan, Kevin,},
      title = {International communism and the cult of the individual :  leaders, tribunes and martyrs under Lenin and Stalin /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      address = {London :},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      year = {2017},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/778755},
}