Alexey Tikhomirov

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

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 706g
• ISBN-13: 9781666911893
• ISBN-10: 1666911895
• Artikelnr.: 63155326

Autorenporträt

By Alexey Tikhomirov - Translated by Jacqueline Friedlander

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1
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