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A cult of personality, or a cult of the leader, [1] is the result of an effort which is made to create an idealized and heroic image of a glorious leader, often through unquestioning flattery and praise. Historically, it has developed through techniques of mass media, propaganda, spectacle, the arts, patriotism, and government-organized ...
Joseph Stalin's cult of personality became a prominent feature of Soviet popular culture. [1] Historian Archie Brown sets the celebration of Stalin 's 50th birthday on 21 December 1929 as the starting point for his cult of personality. [2] For the rest of Stalin's rule, the Soviet propaganda presented Stalin as an all-powerful, all-knowing ...
A cult of personality uses various techniques, including the mass media, propaganda, the arts, patriotism, and government-organized demonstrations and rallies to create a heroic image of a leader, often inviting worshipful behavior through uncritical flattery and praise. [ 1 ]
The cult of personality served to legitimate Stalin's authority, establish continuity with Lenin as his "discipline, student and mentee" in the view of his wider followers. [76] [81] His successor, Nikita Khrushchev, would later denounce the cult of personality around Stalin as contradictory to Leninist principles and party discourse. [82]
Adolf Hitler's cult of personality was a prominent feature of Nazi Germany (1933–1945), [ 1 ] which began in the 1920s during the early days of the Nazi Party. Based on the Führerprinzip ideology, that the leader is always right, spread by incessant Nazi propaganda, and reinforced by Adolf Hitler 's success in fixing Germany's economic and ...
De-Stalinization (Russian: десталинизация, romanized: destalinizatsiya) comprised a series of political reforms in the Soviet Union after the death of long-time leader Joseph Stalin in 1953, and the thaw brought about by ascension of Nikita Khrushchev to power, [1] and his 1956 secret speech "On the Cult of Personality and Its ...
t. e. On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences (Russian: «О культе личности и его последствиях», « O kul'te lichnosti i yego posledstviyakh »), popularly known as the Secret Speech (Russian: секретный доклад Хрущёва, sekretnïy doklad Khrushcheva), was a report by Soviet leader ...
After Deng Xiaoping started the Chinese economic reforms and introduced the concept of collective leadership in the late 1970s, there was no longer a cult of personality around Chinese leaders. Deng and others wanted to prevent another leader from rising above the party as Mao Zedong had done. [5] When Xi came to power in 2012, he started ...