Overview
- Explores the international development of the cult of the individual
- Reveals this international dimension to be the distinguishing feature of the cult of personality
- Ranges across different periods and countries to consider many key players
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“Kevin Morgan has performed an inestimable service for students of international communism. … as a study of non-Soviet communism, Morgan’s book is excellent. Now that it has been published, one cannot claim to understand communism outside the SovietUnion without having read it and incorporated into one’s own analysis of the phenomenon the many insights it thankfully contains.” (Jay Bergman, English Historical Review HER, Vol. 135(564), October, 2018)
“This is a work of considerable accomplishment and erudition. It displays a deep familiarity with the available literature on individual leaders. It is enlivened with telling insights into the appeal of the cult, its multi-faceted forms, the variations between countries, and the appeal which it carried for followers and acolytes.” (E. A. Rees, European History Quarterly, Vol. 47 (4), 2017)
“Morgan’s wide-ranging and penetrating discussion greatly advances our understanding of personality cults in general. … This very fine and thoroughly researched book will be of great interest to scholars of political leadership and of communist and fascist movements. Not only are its case studies superbly conducted; it offers a conceptual framework that can be adapted and applied to many movements and leaders who are beyond the remit of the book itself.” (Stephen Gundle, Labour History Review, Vol. 82 (3), 2017)
“The book undoubtedly succeeds in its goal of providing a broad, comparative and analytical account of the cult of the leader in the international communist movement from the 1930s to the 1950s, when it was its height. There is a very large literature on the cultic practices of particular communist parties and particular leaders, and Morgan is on top of that literature. He goes beyond it in the range of his inquiry, his attention to different forms and aspects, and his historicisation of the subject. This will be the authoritative account of the subject.” (Stuart Macintyre, University of Melbourne, Australia)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Kevin Morgan is Professor of Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Manchester, UK. He has published extensively on the history of the communist movement including the three volumes of his Bolshevism and the British Left (2006-13). He is a founding editor of the journal Twentieth Century Communism.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Communism and the Cult of the Individual
Book Subtitle: Leaders, Tribunes and Martyrs under Lenin and Stalin
Authors: Kevin Morgan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55667-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-349-71778-1Published: 06 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95337-0Published: 03 January 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55667-7Published: 28 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 363
Topics: Modern History, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Cultural History