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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