Announcement

Socialist History Society Public Meeting, 27 January, London

18th Jan 2018

Socialist History Society Public Meeting

Cult and Anti­Cult: Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky in the 1920s

Saturday 27th January 2018 2.00pm

 MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY

 37a Clerkenwell Green EC1R 0DU

 nearest tube Farringdon

 FREE TO ATTEND – ALL WELCOME

 

Speaker: Prof Kevin Morgan

 

The communist cult of the individual was not just a Soviet phenomenon but an international one. When Stalin died in 1953, the communists of all countries united in mourning the figure that was the incarnation of their cause. Though its international character was one of the distinguishing features of the communist cult of personality, this is the first extended study to approach the phenomenon over the longer period of its development in a truly transnational and comparative perspective.

This talk coincides with the publication of Kevin’s new book, International Communism and the Cult of the Individual: Leaders, Tribunes and Martyrs under Lenin and Stalin, Palgrave Macmillan, pb 2018.

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