Generation Stalin : French writers, the fatherland, and the cult of personality / Andrew Sobanet.

• Henri Barbusse and Stalin's official biography -- Romain Rolland and the politics of terror -- Paul Eluard and Stalin's seventieth birthday -- Louis Aragon and the great patriotic war.

• Generation Stalin traces Joseph Stalin rise as a dominant figure in French political culture from the 1930s through the 1950s. Andrew Sobanet brings to light the crucial role French writers played in building Stalin's cult of personality and in disseminating Stalinist propaganda in the international Communist sphere, including within the USSR. Based on a wide array of sources -- literary, cinematic, historical, and archival -- Generation Stalin situates in a broad cultural context the work of the most prominent intellectuals affiliated with the French Communist Party, including Goncourt winner Henri Barbusse, Nobel laureate Romain Rolland, renowned poet Paul Eluard, and canonical literary figure Louis Aragon. Generation Stalin arrives at a pivotal moment, with the Stalin cult and elements of Stalinist ideology resurgent in twenty-first-century Russia and authoritarianism on the rise around the world. 

Ämnesord

Intellektuella  (sao)

Allmänna opinionen  (sao)

Communism and intellectuals  -- France. (LCSH)

Intellectuals  -- Political activity -- France. (LCSH)

Communists  -- France -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Public opinion, French.  (fast)

Kommunism  -- attityder till (sao)

Public opinion  (LCSH)

Intellectuals  (LCSH)

Frankrike  (sao)

Sovjetunionen  (sao)

Soviet Union  -- Foreign public opinion, French. (LCSH)

France.  (fast)

Soviet Union.  (fast)

1900-1999  (fast)

Genre

Biografier  (saogf)

History.  (fast)

Personnamn

Stalin, Josef, 1878-1953

Aragon, Louis, 1897-1982

Barbusse, Henri, 1873-1935

Éluard, Paul, 1895-1952

Rolland, Romain, 1866-1944

Institutionsnamn

Parti communiste français -- History -- 20th century.

Parti communiste français

Klassifikation

DK67.5.F8 (LCC)

947.0842092 (DDC)

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