CULT OF PERSONALITY- What and Why?

Question 1

What is a cult of personality?

Answer 1

Adoration of an individual
Through art and popular culture
To enhance the status of an INDIVIDUAL leader
And create a sense of loyalty

Question 2

Which leaders used similar cults to those used by Soviet leaders?

Answer 2

Mussolini, Hitler

Question 3

What is highlighted in a cult of personality?

Answer 3

Qualities and achievements AS A LEADER

Question 4

HYPOCRISY (partly why Trotsky accused Stalin of betraying the Revolution, personal dictatorship)

Answer 4

Focus on an individual (to a ridiculous extent!)

Social emphasis on collective

Question 5

Despite condoning Stalin for HYPOCRISY of cult during ___________________, Khrushchev then made one himself lol

Answer 5

Secret Speech 1956

Question 6

Why did Brezhnev make a C.O.P?

Answer 6

Less personal power

So could have appearance of it (+trappings!)

Question 7

Because a cult of personality reinforces the power of an INDIVIDUAL leader, it usefully

Answer 7

detaches them from the collective leadership of the politburo