History A-Level
Personality cults
What Personality cults means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Personality cults
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Presentations of Stalin as an infallible genius, Khrushchev as a reforming leader, and Brezhnev as a steady statesman.
Topics that use Personality cults
- Control of the people, 1917–85 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Attacks on religious beliefs and practices
- Continuity and change in control methods
- Continuity and change in cultural policy
- Ideology and cultural production
- Propaganda
- Repression and terror
- Resistance and conformity
- State control versus artistic freedom
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