The Stalin Cult in East Germany and the Making of the Postwar Soviet Empire, 1945–1961 - Couverture souple

Tikhomirov, Alexey

 
9781666911916: The Stalin Cult in East Germany and the Making of the Postwar Soviet Empire, 1945–1961

Synopsis

This book examines the construction, dissemination, and reception of the Stalin cult in East Germany from the end of World War II to the building of the Berlin Wall. By exporting Stalin's cult to the Eastern bloc, Moscow aspired to symbolically unite the communist states in an imagined cult community pivoting around the Soviet leader. Based on Russian and German archives, this work analyzes the emergence of the Stalin cult's transnational dimension. On one hand, it looks at how Soviet representations of power were transferred and adapted in the former "enemy's" country. On the other hand, it reconstructs "spaces of agency" where different agents and generations interpreted, manipulated, and used the Stalin cult to negotiate social identities and everyday life. This study reveals both the dynamics of Stalinism as a political system after the Cold War began and the foundations of modern politics through mass mobilization, emotional bonding, and social engineering in Soviet-style societies. As an integral part of the global history of communism, this book opens up a comparative, entangled perspective on the ways in which veneration of Stalin and other nationalistic cults were established in socialist states across Europe and beyond.

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À propos de l?auteur

Alexey Tikhomirov is assistant professor of East European history at Bielefeld University.

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ISBN 10 :  1666911895 ISBN 13 :  9781666911893
Editeur : Lexington Books, 2022
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