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Inhaltsverzeichnis: Symbolic patterns and interactional dynamics in ruler personality cults : state of the art and open questions / Kirill Postoutenko and Darin Stephanov -- "Personality cults" : the career of the contested notion / Dmitri Zakharine -- The mechanisms of cult production : an overview / Xavier Marquez -- Making the cult of personality from bottom up : the case of seventeenth-century Mughal India / Ali Anooshahr -- A personality cult against one's will? Traits and trajectories of popular veneration of Emperor Alexander I (r. 1801-1825) / Darin Stepanov -- Of death and dominion : Queen Victoria and the cult of colonial loyalty / John Plunkett -- The magic mirror : supplicant letters and the role of false equivalences in shaping ruler dominance / Eva Giloi -- Father of the people, face of the nation : continuities and splits in premodern foundations of modern ruler personality cults / Alexey Tikhomirov -- The image of Josip Broz Tito in post-Yugoslavia : between national and local memory / Tamara Trošt -- Deification, canonization and random signaling : upholding and sustaining personality cults / Kirill Postoutenko -- 'We thank you, our beloved leader!' the origins and evolution of Nicolae Ceaușescu's cult of personality / Manuela Marin -- Embodied practices of leadership : the case of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan / Charlotte Joppien -- Symbolic patterns and interactional dynamics in ruler personality cults : responding to questions and formulating ideas for future research / Kirill Postoutenko and Darin Stephanov.

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Soviet Communication and Soviet Society (1917-1953): Alignments and Tensions -- Overview -- Soviet Society in Communication: Political Conditions and Interactional Consequences -- Communication in Soviet Society: Adaptations, Changes and Repercussions -- References -- Part I: Channels -- Chapter 2: Visual Channels (1): Posters and Fine Art -- Posters -- Fine Art -- References -- Chapter 3: Visual Channels (2): Cityscapes -- Talking to the Uninitiated -- A More Planned Approach -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Visual Channels (3): Cartography -- Introduction -- The Development of Soviet Cartography -- Mapping the Revolution: The Cartographic Communication of Spatial Ideology -- Cartographic Secrecy in Post-revolutionary Russia -- References -- Published Sources -- Archival Sources -- Chapter 5: Auditory Channels: Crowing Roosters and Wailing Sirens -- Human Vocal Organs, Musical Instruments, and Records -- Soundscapes: A General View -- Russia Between Rural and Industrial Soundscapes: A Comparative Glance -- Sound Design and the Recording Rituals: Constructing Soviet Soundscape -- Noise with a Soul: Soundscapes of Soviet Cinema -- Conclusion -- References -- Filmography -- Chapter 6: Tactile Channels: Brotherly Kisses, Handshakes, and Flogging in a Bathhouse -- Proximity as a Social Identifier -- Touch and Proxemics -- The Politics of Brotherly Kissing in Russia and the Soviet Union -- Rubbing the Back in a Bathhouse from Old to Stalinist Russia -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Media -- Chapter 7: Public Body (1): Popular Assemblies -- Popular Assembly as a Special Interactional Setting -- Birth of Popular Assembly from the Spirit of Revolution -- Modifications of Popular Assembly in Mature Stalinism.