"Kult lichnosti" is Khrushchev's coin. However, it is rarely remembered that Khrushchev meant it to mean the distortion of "Marxist-Leninist" ideology (Stalin's coin)and how it impacted the Communist Party - not society per se. Khrushchev's "Kult lichnosti" covered a very narrow set if issues - later the term was used by many Westerners as a term covering all of Stalin's deeds.
--- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> --- Charles Brown <cbrown at michiganlegal.org> wrote:
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>
> >
> >
> > ^^^^^^
> > Does "personality cult" critique originate with
> > Comrade Khrushchev ? Is it
> > founded in Marxist-Leninist principles,not
> > liberalism ?
>
> Coincidentally, I started reading Taubman's book on
> Khrushchev this evening.
>
> As far as I know, critique of the "kult lichnosti"
> started with Khrushchev (Justin? Peter?). But
> Khrushchev and Mikoyan and Beria and all the other
> Stalin epigones had their own local cults, songs
> about
> how Comrade Beria is making all the little children
> happy and so forth and collective farms named after
> Molotov and so forth. Really it was a weird time.
> That
> was a strange group of guys.
>
> On related matters, I know nothing about Pol Pot,
> but
> suspect he was not a very nice guy.
>
>
> Nu, zayats, pogodi!
>
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