cult of personality
- Created by: 10cmurphy
- Created on: 17-04-17 15:04
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- Cult of Personality
- Official histories
- Cult of Stalin underpinned by this
- Exaggerated Stalin's role in Oct Rev
- Faking history
- Photos and paintings doctored to present a false image from the past
- Showed Stalin playing a lead role in planning the Oct Rev
- Stalin in art
- Lenin's pupil
- 1930's-Stalin shown as Lenin's pupil
- Presented as faithfully carrying on Lenin's work
- The myth of two leaders
- Late 1930's-Marxism-Leninism became Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism
- Stalin had always been Lenin's equal according to myths
- Lenin's pupil
- The popular cult
- Cult of Stalin and continuing Cult of Lenin provided a focus
- Significance
- Emphasised the wisdom and greatness of Stalin
- Russians felt their destiny was in safe hands
- Carrying on the work of Lenin-a secular saint
- Official histories
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