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Title page
Copyright page
Table of Contents
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE CULT
1 The Chronology of Cult Construction (1925–1953).
2 The Institutions and Agents of Cult Construction
3 “The Biography is a Very Serious Issue”: The Role of Biographies in Constructing the Rákosi Cult
4 “He Was Created by a Thousand Years”: Nationalism and the Leader Cult
5 “Comrade Rákosi Lives with Us”: The Visual and the Spatial Aspects of the Rákosi Cult
II RESPONSES TO THE CULT’S EXPANSION
6 “Love for Comrade Rákosi Has Become Deeper”: The Communicative Influence of the Cult
7 “Death to Uncle Rákosi!” Negative Perceptions of the Cult
8 Ignorance is Bliss: Popular Indifference and the Shortcomings of Communist Propaganda
III THE DISMANTLING OF THE CULT
9 The “New Course” and the Decay of the Rákosi Cult, 1953–1956
10 The Collapse of the Rákosi Cult
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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