Leader cults: Varieties, preconditions and functions

British The Leader Cult in Communist Dictatorships: Stalin and the Eastern Bloc

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 3-26

  Rees, E A ^a  

^a EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230518216_1     Document Type: Chapter

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