The Stalin cult in East Germany and the making of the postwar Soviet empire, 1945-1961 /
"This study examines the Stalin cult in East Germany as both a representative and a unique case study of Sovietization in Eastern Europe. The author investigates the emergence and functioning of the postwar Soviet empire from the end of World War II to the building of the Berlin Wall"--
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | A revised and expanded version of a Russian edition based on author's dissertation.--Acknowledgements. |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books,
[2022]
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| Series: | Harvard Cold War studies book series.
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Table of Contents:
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Father of the people, face of the nation: the premodern and modern foundations of personality cults
- Chapter 2. The empire of Stalinism: the USSR and East Germany after 1945
- Chapter 3. From the "Red Tyrant" to the "Liberator": the image of Stalin in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany
- Chapter 4. "The best friend of the German people": the making of the cult community in the GDR
- Chapter 5. "The fierce enemy of the German people": the personality cult and iconoclasm in East Germany
- Chapter 6. "We wanted to make a god but he turned out to be the devil": the politics and practices of de-Stalinization in the GDR
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the author.