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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.
This book provides a systematic account of media and communication
development in Soviet society from the October Revolution to the
death of Stalin. Summarizing earlier research and drawing upon
previously unpublished archival materials, it covers the main
aspects of public and private interaction in the Soviet Union, from
public broadcast to kitchen gossip. The first part of the volume
covers visual, auditory and tactile channels, such as posters, maps
and monuments. The second deals with media, featuring public
gatherings, personal letters, telegraph, telephone, film and radio.
The concluding part surveys major boundaries and flows structuring
the Soviet communicate environment. The broad scope of
contributions to this volume will be of great interest to students
and researchers working on the Soviet Union, and twentieth-century
media and communication more broadly.
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