The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power

by Jan Plamper

Between the late 1920s and the early 1950s, one of the most persuasive personality cults of all times saturated Soviet public space with images of Stalin. A torrent of portraits, posters, statues, films, plays, songs, and poems galvanized the Soviet population and inspired leftist activists around the world. In the first book to examine the cultural products and production methods of the Stalin cult, Jan Plamper reconstructs a hidden history linking...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300169523
• ISBN13: 9780300169522
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.3" x 10.1"