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Joseph Stalin's cult of personality - Wikipedia

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Joseph Stalin's cult of personality became a prominent feature of Soviet popular culture beginning in 1929, after a lavish celebration of his purported 50th birthday.[1] For the rest of Stalin's rule, the Soviet press presented Stalin as an all-powerful, all-knowing leader, with Stalin's name and image appearing everywhere.[2] Historian Archie Brown sets the celebration of Stalin's 50th birthday on 21 December 1929 as the starting point for his cult of personality.[3] The building of the cult of personality around Stalin had to proceed judiciously, as British historian Ian Kershaw explains in his history of Europe in the first half of the 20th century, To Hell and Back: A Stalin cult had to be built carefully. This was not just because the man himself was so physically unprepossessing – diminutive and squat, his face dominated by a big walrus mustache and heavily pitted from smallpox – or that he was a secretive, intensely private individual who spoke in a quiet, undemonstrative voice,

Joseph Stalin's cult of personality - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Portrait of Stalin displayed at a public event in Leipzig , East Germany , in 1950 This article is part of a series about Joseph Stalin Personal Early life Residences Death and state funeral Pre-leadership 1902 Batumi workers' strikes [ ka ] 1905 Tampere conference 1907 Tiflis bank robbery 1906 Bolshevik raid on the Tsarevich Giorgi Russian Revolution Russian Civil War Polish-Soviet War Rise to power Leader of the Soviet Union Tenure First five-year plan Anti-religious campaign 1930–1933 famin

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