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Personality Cult
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[German Version]
I. Religious Studies The term
personality cult probably became popular in February of 1956, when Nikita Khrushchev’s famous “secret speech” at the 20th Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union admitted numerous excesses during the Stalin period and ascribed them to the “cult of personality” (Russ.
kul’
t lichnosti) surrounding J. Stalin
. Since that time,
personality cult has been a political watchword denoting exaggerated importance attached to the role of personality in politics, society, or history. Because of its polit…
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Religion Past and Present
