menuThe Personality Cult of Stalin in Soviet Posters, 1929–1953
- First Page
- Title page
- Copyright and imprint information
- Acknowledgements
- List of illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. The phenomenon of the personality cult — a historical perspective
- 2. The rise of the Stalin personality cult
- 3. Stalin is like a fairytale sycamore tree — Stalin as a symbol
- 4. Stalin saves the world — Stalin and the evolution of the Warrior and Saviour archetypes
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1: Breakdown of posters in the research sample by year
- Appendix 2: Frequency trends in posters with images of Stalin in the research sample, and Stalin’s appearances in Pravda
- Appendix 3: Posters of Stalin and Lenin by year
- Bibliography
