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By July 1933, Germany had become a one-party Nazi state. The Weapons of Dictatorship. Propaganda. Nazi propaganda went hand-in-hand with violence. Nazi propagandists considered terror to be a form of propaganda. Terror could also be used to compel people to change their behavior.
If a dictator can compel not only his allies but also his rivals to acclaim him, in public, it creates a very different sort of context. Most of all, with the cult of personality, there is a point since all of them have to acclaim the dictator in public, all of them become liars.
Sep 18, 2015 · Autocratic totalitarianism, enshrined in propaganda. This article will take us through an analysis of how Stalin established and maintained a cult of personality, touching on how successful it was. Establishing a ‘Cult of Personality’ – the legacy of autocracy
Sep 18, 2019 · Frank Dikötter, a brilliant historian with a prize-winning trilogy on Mao’s China behind him, takes eight of the most successful 20th-century dictators: Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Nicolae Ceausescu, Papa Doc Duvalier and Mengistu, and shows with chilling brevity and clarity how this is done.
- Sue Prideaux
Jun 8, 2020 · This introductory essay outlines the key themes of the special issue on the long-term impact of autocracies on the political attitudes and behavior of their subjects.
- Anja Neundorf, Grigore Pop-Eleches
- 2020
Aug 21, 2018 · Personality cults of political leaders can be conceptualized in one of two different ways: as propaganda that portrays the leader positively, or as rituals of leader worship.
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Dec 3, 2019 · In How to Be a Dictator, Frank Dikötter examines the cults and propaganda surrounding twentieth-century dictators, from Hitler and Stalin to Mao Zedong and Kim Il Sung. These men were the...