Rendez-vous cu Leviathan. V. I. Lenin şi cultul personalităţii sale în presa sovietică
Rendez-vous with Leviathan. V. Lenin and the cult of his personality in the Soviet press

Summary/Abstract: The press image is very far from the realistic portrait of a man. It is the deliberate creation of a positive symbol for the socialist order. The undeniable charisma of the original image of Lenin has been extended and diluted in order tomake him agreeable for mass consumption by a not very sophisticated public. Interestingly enough, this practice of glorifying the founding leader is contrary both to Lenin’s own belief and to Marx's thesis according to which history traces the evolution of a series of class struggles and it is not the result of the action of isolated individuals.

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