The Invisible Shining : : The Cult of Mátyás Rákosi in Stalinist Hungary, 19451956 /

The Invisible Shining : : The Cult of Mátyás Rákosi in Stalinist Hungary, 19451956 / / Balazs Apor.

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This book offers a detailed analysis of the construction, reception, and eventual decline of the cult of the Hungarian Communist Party Secretary, Mátyás Rákosi, one of the most striking examples of orchestrated adulation in the Soviet bloc. While his cult never approached the magnitude of that of St...

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Apor, Balazs,
Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • I. The Construction Of The Cult
  • 1. The Chronology of Cult Construction (1925–1953)
  • 2. The Institutions and Agents of Cult Construction
  • 3. “The Biography is a Very Serious Issue”: The Role of Biographies in Constructing the Rákosi Cult
  • 4. “He Was Created by a Thousand Years”: Nationalism and the Leader Cult
  • 5. “Comrade Rákosi Lives with Us”: The Visual and the Spatial Aspects of the Rákosi Cult
  • II. Responses To The Cult’S Expansion
  • 6. “Love for Comrade Rákosi Has Become Deeper”: The Communicative Influence of the Cult
  • 7. “Death to Uncle Rákosi!” Negative Perceptions of the Cult
  • 8. Ignorance is Bliss: Popular Indifference and the Shortcomings of Communist Propaganda
  • III. The Dismantling Of The Cult
  • 9. The “New Course” and the Decay of the Rákosi Cult, 1953–1956
  • 10 The Collapse of the Rákosi Cult
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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