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The Cult of Personality

2001
By the end of the decade following 1910, the prestige, visibility, and influence of movie stars had significantly expanded in American society. No longer confined to the movie theater, stars were everywhere. Their faces adorned advertisements for cosmetics and clothing; their exploits filled newspapers and magazines; their names appeared regularly in ...
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Review Essay: The Cult of Personality

Criminal Justice Review, 2008
The Supreme Court has undergone significant changes in personnel in the last few years with the death of Chief Justice Rehnquist and the retirement of Justice O'Connor. As the Court begins a new chapter under Chief Justice Roberts, several biographies of current and former justices have been published.
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The Rise of Stalin's Personality Cult

The American Historical Review, 1979
THE CULT OF LENIN, which Lenin himself opposed and managed to keep in check until incapacitated by a stroke in March 1923, subsequently became a pervasive part of Soviet public life. No single cause explains its rise. Undoubtedly, the Bolsheviks genuinely venerated their vozhd' as the man whose personal leadership had been critically important for the ...
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The Personality Cult

2020
Wang Fanxi, Gregor Benton
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Musicianship and the Cult of Personality

2019
Public access to secular music started the cult of superstars. Composition matched this new demand. Stars were eclipsed by ever greater virtuosity. This created a demand for more powerful instruments and better concert halls. Fame was equally available for the conductors.
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Leadership and the cult of personality

2016
Throughout the world, including the Arab region, the cult of personality has played a significant role in authoritarian and totalitarian states, impacting them politically, economically, and culturally. In general, a cult is “an established system of veneration of a political leader, to which members of the society are expected to subscribe, a system ...
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‘Are there Marlians in the Buhari government?’ Popular music and personality cult in Nigeria

Celebrity Studies, 2022
Emaeyak Peter Sylvanus, Samson Uchenna Eze   +1 more
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Cult of Personalities and Politics of Domination

2010
This chapter is an analytical report card on the sociopolitical resume/credentials of contemporary African leadership and governance. The attempt to arrive at any meaningful evaluation would involve negotiating between series and patterns of ambivalent structures that have been the character of African politics in general: culture/tradition versus ...
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Cult of personality

2023
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“Personality cults”

2020
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