The Invisible Shining

Posted By Aisseco on Gen 9, 2018

Balázs Apor The Invisible Shining The Cult of Mátyás Rákosi in Stalinist Hungary, 1945-1956 This book offers a detailed analysis of the construction, reception and eventual decline of the cult of the Hungarian Communist Party Secretary, Mátyás Rákosi, one of the most striking examples of orchestrated adulation in the Soviet bloc. While his cult never approached the magnitude of that of Stalin, Rákosi’s ambition to outshine the other...