The Public Perception of the Cult of Lenin Based on Archival Materials
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This book presents a study of collective representations in Soviet Russia concentrates on perceptions of Lenin's image from a socio-anthropological, rather than political, view. In addition to Communist Party information, official documents, memoirs and folklore, newly opened secret reports of the Soviet political police are used for the first time. The book analyzes the development of the cult from Lenin's lifetime up to the process of "de-Leninization" in the 1990s. Much of the research conce…
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Date:
2001
Creator:
Velikanova, Olga V.
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UNT College of Arts and Sciences