02676nam 2200529 450 991046641050332120200520144314.0963-386-193-4(CKB)3840000000350802(MiAaPQ)EBC5217294(OCoLC)974794892(MdBmJHUP)muse60052(Au-PeEL)EBL5217294(CaPaEBR)ebr11497169(EXLCZ)99384000000035080220180209h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe "Invisible shining" the cult of Mátyás Rákosi in Stalinist Hungary, 1945-1956 /Balázs AporBudapest, Hungary ;New York, New York :Central European University Press,2017.©20171 online resource (417 pages) illustrations963-386-192-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: The Stalinist leader cult : origins, interpretations, and functions -- Part I. The construction of the cult -- The chronology of cult construction (1925-1953) -- The institutions and agents of cult construction -- "The biography is a very serious issue" : the role of biographies in constructing the Rákosi cult -- "He was created by a thousand years" : nationalism and the leader cult -- "Comrade Rákosi lives with us" : the visual and the spatial aspects of the Rákosi cult -- Part II. Responses to the cult's expansion -- "Love for Comrade Rákosi has become deeper" : the communicative influence of the cult -- "Death to Uncle Rákosi!" : negative perceptions of the cult -- Ignorance is bliss : popular indifference and the shortcomings of communist propaganda -- Part III. The dismantling of the cult -- The "new course" and the decay of the Rákosi cult, 1953-1956 -- The collapse of the Rákosi cult.CultsPolitical aspectsHungaryHistory20th centuryPublic opinionHungaryHistory20th centuryCommunismHungaryHistory20th centuryNationalismHungaryHistory20th centuryHungaryPolitics and government1945-1989Electronic books.CultsPolitical aspectsHistoryPublic opinionHistoryCommunismHistoryNationalismHistory943.9052092Apor Balázs993530MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910466410503321The "Invisible shining"2274963UNINA