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	On the Personality Cult and its Consequences - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On the Personality Cult and its Consequences, commonly known as the Secret Speech was a report to the 20th Party Congress on February 25, 1956 by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, in which he denounced the actions of Joseph Stalin.
		Quotations from the classics of Marxism-Leninism, which denounced the "cult of an individual" (i.e.
		"We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all; we must… return to and actually practice in all our ideological work the most important theses of Marxist-Leninist science about the people as the creator of history and as the creator of all material and spiritual good of humanity...
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/On_the_Personality_Cult_and_its_Consequences (1867 words)

	Rehabilitation (Soviet) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rehabilitation in the context of Soviet or Russian topics is often a "false friend" used to translate the Russian term "reabilitatsiya" as applied to convicted persons.
		This release became coupled with exonerations after the Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalinism in his 1956 speech On the Personality Cult and its Consequences.
		In many cases the persons were released with an insulting version of the corpus delicti: "due to the lack of a proof of guilt", rather than "due to the lack of a criminal matter".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rehabilitation_(Soviet) (174 words)

	Joseph Stalin - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Stalin's cult of personality, his concentration of power and the means of its execution has led to a common characterization of him as a dictator and to an opinion that he was personally responsible, directly or indirectly, via his policies, for millions or tens of millions of deaths and unjust imprisonments in the Soviet Union.
		Continuous persecution in the 1930s resulted in its near-extinction: by 1939, active parishes numbered in the low hundreds (down from 54,000 in 1917), many churches had been levelled, and tens of thousands of priests, monks and nuns were dead or imprisoned.
		In his "Secret Speech", "On the Personality Cult and its Consequences", delivered to a closed session of the 20th Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Khrushchev denounced Stalin for his cult of personality and his regime for "violation of Leninist norms of legality".
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/s/t/a/Stalin.html (8043 words)

	Stalin and the Personality Cult
		Thus, the 'cult of the individual' or 'Cult of Personality' as built up around Stalin was contrary to Marxism-Leninism, and its practice was contrary to the expressed wishes of Stalin.
		We have seen that, although Stalin expressed strong opposition to the 'cult of Personality', the legend of a 'cult of personality' continued.
		To conclude, the attack made by the revisionists, on the 'cult of personality' in the Soviet Union was an attack not only upon Stalin personally as a leading Marxist-Leninist and leading defender of socialism, but was the first stage in an attack upon Marxism-Leninism and the socialist system in the Soviet Union.
	www.geocities.com /redcomrades/pers-cult.html (3789 words)

	Central Europe Review - Music: Krzyzstof Penderecki
		Consequently, the sudden availability of contemporary scores and recordings following Stalin's death in 1953, and Nikita Khruschev's subsequent "secret" report - "The Personality Cult and its Consequences" - instigated one of music history's most remarkable renaissances.
		Penderecki ran through the score just once in its entirety, barking an occasional order to the players - usually to play louder - before muttering his thanks and departed from the podium without any fine-tuning or tweaking, save for a few moments spent with the violas, at their request, on a tricky melodic line.
		Given such intensely personal aims, the knowledge of which will certainly add a fascinating dimension to the study and reception of Penderecki's music over the coming years, it would almost seem churlish to chide him for his music's lack of subtlety or sophistication.
	www.ce-review.org /99/20/reyland20.html (1483 words)

	Slanderous (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		They don't realise that it's a silver bullet that only serves to institutionalise poverty and does not help any significant number of people to improve their situation.
		I guess it's obvious to anyone with a grain of common sense that CD's are much cheaper today than they were 26 years ago.
		No rights or freedom is afforded to its citizens and food shortages are becoming so rampant that more and more reports of cannibalism surface from the, few and far between, refugees.
	slanderous.wordpress.com /.../how-stalinism-chipped-at-its-own-armour (1550 words)

	What is a Cult? The mind control process in the FWBO.
		Cults themselves are usually opaque to outside scrutiny, and the actual process of mind control is difficult to define or to analyse.
		Cults in general are dominated by their leaders, and members, especially those who have immersed themselves in the cult's mind-control environment for a number of years, tend to derive much of their outlook on life from the leader's teachings.
		Consequently both individual members and also the cult as a whole will often seem to mirror in various ways the personality and preoccupations of their leader.
	www.ex-cult.org /fwbo/fwbosection2.htm (8998 words)

	1937: Stalin's Year of Terror - Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Its author, who was still unable to openly declare his fidelity to the ideals of "autocracy, orthodoxy and nationalism" (considered by the "national-patriots" to be "eternal" and "truly Russian" values), limited himself to comparing the "nihilistic" 1920s to the "patriotic" 1930s.
		In this regard we must stress that one of the goals (and therefore one of the results or consequences) of the "Yezhov period" was the destruction of the social and historical memory of the people, which is passed from generation to generation through its living bearers.
		All its organizers, with the exception of those who were killed by declared enemies, survived this heroic epoch.
	www.wsws.org /exhibits/1937/intro.htm (5957 words)

	Modern History Sourcebook: Nikita S. Khrushchev: The Secret Speech - On the Cult of Personality, 1956
		It was because Stalin personally supervised the Leningrad affair, and the majority of the Political Bureau members did not, at that time, know all of the circumstances in these matters, and could not therefore intervene.
		He personally issued advice on the conduct of the investigation and the method of interrogation of the arrested persons.
		First, in a Bolshevik manner to condemn and to eradicate the cult of the individual as alien to Marxism-Leninism and not consonant with the principles of party leadership and the norms of party life, and to fight inexorably all attempts at bringing back this practice in one form or another.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/1956khrushchev-secret1.html (4605 words)

	"Khrushchev's Secret Speech -- Full Annotated Text"
		It was for this reason that the Party led an inexorable ideological fight, explaining to all [its] members and to the non-Party masses the harm and the danger of the anti-Leninist proposals of the Trotskyite opposition and the rightist opportunists.
		I personally do not believe that in 1934 an honest Party member who had trod the long road of unrelenting fight against enemies for the Party and for socialism would now be in the camp of the enemies.
		Its cadres were tempered and hardened by the fire of the war.
	www.uwm.edu /Course/448-343/index12.html (17913 words)

	ROGER SANDALL - Spiked.
		The soul thinks once again, and in Romanticism looks back piteously to its childhood; then finally, weary, reluctant, cold, it loses its desire to be, and, as in Imperial Rome, wishes itself out of the overlong daylight and back in the darkness of protomysticism, in the womb of the mother, in the grave.
		It’s a much better than average introduction to the whole subject of the Persian Wars and what they have meant for the West.
		Not only would the West have lost its first struggle for independence and survival, but it is unlikely, had the Greeks succumbed to Xerxes’ invasion, that there would ever have been such an entity as ‘the West’ at all.
	www.culturecult.com /spiked.htm (14759 words)

	Consolidation and Development of Ideological Unity Among Marxist-Leninist Parties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The effective struggle against the personality cult as unanimously approved by the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, exerts a great influence over the whole communist movement.
		We have found manifestations of the personality cult both in leading central and local organs; to overcome these shortcomings, we have decided to improve ideological work in the Party and among the people.
		Our enemy has attempted to make use of the criticism of personality cult to mitigate the influence of the great achievements recorded by the Soviet Union and to blemish the revolutionary movement which is ceaselessly gaining more victories.
	www.marxists.org /reference/archive/ho-chi-minh/works/1956/08/03.htm (1375 words)

	Yes, I've had tarry bowel movements! So what? - Salon
		Reading Annie Murphy Paul's new book, "The Cult of Personality: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves," I gathered that the baffling test I was given years ago was the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, or one of its many variants.
		And they often carry grave consequences -- influencing whether people are hired for jobs, admitted to schools, receive custody of their children.
		I had a friend who applied for a part-time job at a clothing store, and she was given a personality test called an "honesty test." She actually failed it, because of a question like "Everybody lies sometimes." She said yes.
	dir.salon.com /story/mwt/feature/2004/09/29/personality_tests/index.html (622 words)

	Wikinfo \| Joseph Stalin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This concentration of personal power increasingly alarmed the dying Lenin, and in Lenin's Testament he famously called for the removal of the "rude" Stalin.
		It is of note that Anna Akhmatova was subjected to several cycles of suppression and rehabilitation, but was never herself arrested, although her first husband, Nikolai Gumilev the poet, had been shot already in 1921, and her son, Lev Gumilev the historian, spent two decades in the Gulag.
		While the social and economic policies over which Stalin presided did lay the foundations for the USSR's emergence as a superpower, the harshness of the means employed by which he conducted Soviet affairs was subsequently repudiated by his successors in the Communist Party leadership, notably in his denunciation by Nikita Khrushchev in February 1956.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Joseph_Stalin (6278 words)

	Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Joseph Stalin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It's nothing but the vast majority of its members being tinhorn dictators and -- and -- and other, you know, little rugrats that are given legitimacy with their membership in the United Nations.
		Nikita Khrushchev, Stalin's successor, denounced his mass repressions and cult of personality in 1956, initiating the process of "de-Stalinization".
		His play, "The Days of the Turbins," with its sympathetic treatment of an anti-Bolshevik family caught in the Civil War, was finally staged, apparently also on Stalin's intervention, and began a decades-long uninterrupted run at the Moscow Arts Theater.
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/joseph_stalin (9276 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: The Cult of Personality: How Personality Tests are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage ...
		In The Cult of Personality, award-winning psychology writer Annie Murphy Paul reveals the surprising and disturbing story behind the tests that claim to capture human nature.
		Personality tests, she contends, produce descriptions of people that are nothing like human beings as they actually are: complicated, contradictory, changeable across time and place.
		Perhaps most distressing, we are all increasingly implicated in a "cult of personality" that celebrates the superficial over the substantive, the static over the dynamic, the standard and average over the distinctive and unique.
	www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/eBook26080.htm (418 words)

	RIA Novosti - Opinion & analysis - Is personality cult possible today?
		In Russia the cult of outstanding statesmen is rooted in the 20th century history with its three revolutions, two world wars, industrial modernization, and many other major events, which subjected the nation to ultimate strain.
		The Portuguese glorified Antonio Salazar, Spaniards sang praises to Bahamonde Franco.
		It is not at all a hard and fast rule that the personality cult is necessarily accompanied by bloody political reprisals, as it happened in the U.S.S.R. under Stalin.
	en.rian.ru /analysis/20060221/43677161.html (1161 words)

	The Murder of S.M. Kirov
		After this one of the persons from them hit Nikolaev on the head with a revolver and he was taken away.
		Many facts point out that Nikolaev was not really a normal person, he was an epileptic with an incorrect self-assessment and bore a grudge against the Party and the Soviet state (he was dropped from the Party for refusing to work in the transport division, later he was reinstated).
		If one goes by the personal diary of Nikolaev, his various counter-revolutionary statements and the opinion of his wife, one may conclude that Kirov's murder was planned by Nikolaev as a mark of protest against the policies of the Party and the Soviet state.
	revolutionarydemocracy.org /rdv2n1/kirov.htm (5145 words)

	The Moscow News
		The speech was Khrushchev's report made at the closed session of the XX Party Congress titled "On the personality cult and its consequences" and condemning Stalin for "violating Leninist principles and Communist norms of collective leadership" and creating a "personality cult" of himself.
		Although Soviet citizens were informed about the speech (its contents ordered for dissemination at the meetings of all Communist and Komsomol organizations throughout the country) a month after Khrushchev delivered it, its full text was printed only under Mikhail Gorbachev in 1989.
		The speech itself was based on the inquiries made by a party commission specially appointed by in 1955 to investigate the repressions of the delegates of the XVII Party Congress, most of whom were convicted for "ant-Soviet activities" and executed.
	english.mn.ru /english/issue.php?2005-7-30 (354 words)

	Amazon.com: The Cult of Personality: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Personality tests are administered to millions of people every year for purposes ranging from career counseling and educational guidance to determining parental fitness in custody battles.
		She traces the historical roots of personality testing from phrenology in the 1830s to the Rorschach inkblot to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
		I think her experience at the magazine was definitely a plus because, without her editorial abilities, the average lay person would find tackling this subject to be too daunting a task--which is precisely one reason why we take these tests unwittingly.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743243560?v=glance (3080 words)

	Joseph Stalin - dKosopedia
		Stalin's accumulation of personal power increasingly alarmed the dying Lenin, and in Lenin's Testament he famously called for the removal of the "rude" Stalin.
		A census was taken again in 1939, but its published figure of 170 million has been generally attributed directly to the decision of StalinTemplate:Ref (see also Demographics of the Soviet Union).
		Image:Stalincult.jpg Stalin is well known for having created a cult of personality in the Soviet Union around both himself and Lenin.
	www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Stalin (7002 words)

	Rox Populi: On the Personality Cult and Its Consequences
		The Cult of Bush is not a new phenom.
		Cults have coalesced around political personalities as long as there've been politicians.
		This led to glaring violations of revolutionary legality and to the fact that many entirely innocent individuals -- [persons] who in the past had defended the Party line -- became victims.
	roxanne.typepad.com /rantrave/2006/02/on_the_personal.html (614 words)

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