Bolshevism, Stalinism and the Comintern 2008
DOI: 10.1057/9780230227583_7
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

‘Kings among their subjects’? Ernst Thälmann, Harry Pollitt and the Leadership Cult as Stalinization

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...

Citation Types

0
1
0

Year Published

2012
2012
2020
2020

Publication Types

Select...
2
1

Relationship

1
2

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 3 publications
(1 citation statement)
references
References 8 publications
0
1
0
Order By: Relevance
“…This may also fruitfully take the form of transnational comparison; examples are the essays of Norman LaPorte and Kevin Morgan comparing Thälmann with Harry Pollitt as a way of exploring some of the broader social and cultural differences between the German and British communist parties. 46 In examining the utility or sometimes liability for such figures of diverse forms of biographical capital, such comparisons also raise issues to do with the construction of communist lives and life-histories. Work in this area has been especially fruitfully developed by scholars associated with Claude Pennetier and Bernard Pudal in France, and this too offers possibilities for transnational comparison.…”
mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This may also fruitfully take the form of transnational comparison; examples are the essays of Norman LaPorte and Kevin Morgan comparing Thälmann with Harry Pollitt as a way of exploring some of the broader social and cultural differences between the German and British communist parties. 46 In examining the utility or sometimes liability for such figures of diverse forms of biographical capital, such comparisons also raise issues to do with the construction of communist lives and life-histories. Work in this area has been especially fruitfully developed by scholars associated with Claude Pennetier and Bernard Pudal in France, and this too offers possibilities for transnational comparison.…”
mentioning
confidence: 99%