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Stalin's Cult of Personality
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Other Displays of Devotion
Shortly after the revolution of October 1917, Ivan Tovstukha drafted up a biographical section featuring Stalin for the Russian Granat Encyclopedia Dictionary. Even though most of the description of Stalin's career was very mush embellished, it had gained so much favor with the public that they released a fourteen-page pamphlet of it alone named Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin: A Short Biography with a print run of 50,000.

In 1955 a giant monument dedicated to Stalin was constructed in Prague and stood until 1962. The statue was gift for Stalin's sixty-ninth birthday from Prague to commemorate "Mr. Stalin's personalty, mostly from his ideological features". After a long five years in the making, the massive 17,000-ton monument was finally revealed to the public which depicted Stalin, with one at the front of a group of proletarian workers.

Stalin's Opinion of his Cult
One could argue that the attention from his growing cult started to grow on Stalin. A poster from 1934 came out featuring "banner of Marx-Engles-Lenin-Stalin" and at the time Stalin had omitted his name from that poster. Yet by 1938 Stalin was more than comfortable with the banner featuring his name. In some memoirs even Molotov claimed that Stalin had resisted this "cult of personality" but then soon came to be comfortable with it.

Notes on Stalin's cult of personality
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Article is neutral, Stalin's cult of personality does not appear biased as it focuses on all aspects of the illusion as the "Father of Nations".

Touches base upon the unclear views of how Stalin felt about his peoples devotion to him, provides information about the way he acted in public and private.

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