What Was the Short-Term Significance of Stalin‘S Cult of Personality in the Years 1928-1938?
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What was the short-term significance of Stalin‘s Cult of Personality in the years 1928-1938?
„A cult of personality arises when an individual uses mass media, propaganda, or other methods, to create an idealised and heroic public image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise. Cults of personality are usually associated with dictatorships.“1 Stalin created a pervasive Cult of Personality by using propaganda, the making of Russia as a one-party leadership, with the help of himself shown as a god-like father figure and with his personal paranoia. Furthermore, during his twenty-five years of Leadership Stalin craved to attain a strong national socialist Russia and wanted to be glorified as a great leader. The rise of Stalin began with Lenin‘s death in 1924. Due to his creativity and use of symbols, Stalin knew how to manipulate pictures, speeches and people to achieve power. He also had a powerful position as party secretary, which allowed him to present himself much more amicable than his opponents. As General secretary and later leader of Russia‘s communist party, it was possible to grow in the minds and heart of his people and be seen in the same light as God. Moreover, Stalin falsified the photograph with him and Lenin sitting together 2 , he illustrated himself as a great friend of Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin. Stalin‘s Cult was created by such copies during his leadership, he changed history, by putting him in front of everything happening in Russia. A strong evidence showing that Stalin had a stressful character is his Will of achieving his aims. Again, in the photograph, where Stalin is displayed as the chief mourner at Lenin‘s testament 3 , he puts a lot of emphasis on his close friendship with Lenin in order to benefit from his popularity with the people. Stalin took a very public and prominent role at the funeral of Russian‘s leader, however, inwardly, he was triumphing. Nevertheless, in Lenin‘s Testament, it is clearly stated that Lenin did not support...
„A cult of personality arises when an individual uses mass media, propaganda, or other methods, to create an idealised and heroic public image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise. Cults of personality are usually associated with dictatorships.“1 Stalin created a pervasive Cult of Personality by using propaganda, the making of Russia as a one-party leadership, with the help of himself shown as a god-like father figure and with his personal paranoia. Furthermore, during his twenty-five years of Leadership Stalin craved to attain a strong national socialist Russia and wanted to be glorified as a great leader. The rise of Stalin began with Lenin‘s death in 1924. Due to his creativity and use of symbols, Stalin knew how to manipulate pictures, speeches and people to achieve power. He also had a powerful position as party secretary, which allowed him to present himself much more amicable than his opponents. As General secretary and later leader of Russia‘s communist party, it was possible to grow in the minds and heart of his people and be seen in the same light as God. Moreover, Stalin falsified the photograph with him and Lenin sitting together 2 , he illustrated himself as a great friend of Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin. Stalin‘s Cult was created by such copies during his leadership, he changed history, by putting him in front of everything happening in Russia. A strong evidence showing that Stalin had a stressful character is his Will of achieving his aims. Again, in the photograph, where Stalin is displayed as the chief mourner at Lenin‘s testament 3 , he puts a lot of emphasis on his close friendship with Lenin in order to benefit from his popularity with the people. Stalin took a very public and prominent role at the funeral of Russian‘s leader, however, inwardly, he was triumphing. Nevertheless, in Lenin‘s Testament, it is clearly stated that Lenin did not support...