Cult of personality

==References==
;Notes
{{Reflist}}

;Bibliography
* {{Cite book |last=Bosworth |first=Richard J. B. |title=Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Dictatorship, 1915–1945 |publisher=Penguin Adult |year=2006 |isbn=978-0141012919}}
* {{Cite book |last=Bosworth |first=Richard J. B. |title=Mussolini |publisher=A&C Black |year=2014 |isbn=978-1849660242}}
* {{Cite book |last=Brendon |first=Piers |title=The Dark Valley |publisher=Random House |year=2016 |isbn=978-1446496329}}
* {{Cite book |last=Falasca-Zamponi |first=Simonetta |title=Fascist Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini's Italy |publisher=University of California Press |year=2000 |isbn=978-0520226777}}
* {{Cite book |last=Gallo |first=Max |title=Mussolini's Italy; Twenty Years of the Fascist Era |publisher=Macmillan |year=1973}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Gill |first=Graeme |year=1980 |title=The Soviet Leader Cult: Reflections on the Structure of Leadership in the Soviet Union |journal=British Journal of Political Science |volume=10 |issue=167 |pages=167–186 |doi=10.1017/S0007123400002088|s2cid=155049543 }}
* {{Cite book |last1=Gundle |first1=Stephen |title=The cult of the Duce: Mussolini and the Italians |last2=Duggan |first2=Christopher |last3=Pieri |first3=Giuliana |publisher=Manchester University Press |year=2015 |isbn=978-1526101419}}
* {{Cite book |last=Gunther |first=John |title=Inside Europe |publisher=Harper & brothers |year=1936}}
* {{Cite book |last=Hamilton |first=Alastair |title=Appeal of Fascism |publisher=Harper Mass Market Paperbacks |year=1973 |isbn=978-0380010257}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Kelly |first=Catriona |year=2005 |title=Riding the Magic Carpet: Children and Leader Cult in the Stalin Era |journal=The Slavic and East European Journal |volume=49 |issue=2 |pages=199–224 |doi=10.2307/20058260 |jstor=20058260}}
* {{Cite book |last=Kershaw |first=Ian |title=The 'Hitler Myth'. Image and Reality in the Third Reich |year=1998}}
* {{Cite book |last=Kershaw |first=Ian |title=Hitler 1936–1945: Nemesis |publisher=Penguin Books Limited |year=2001 |isbn=978-0141925813}}
* {{Cite book |last=Plamper |first=Jan |title=The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power |publisher=New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press |year=2012 |isbn=978-0300169522}}
* {{Cite book |last=Speer |first=Albert |title=Inside The Third Reich |publisher=Orion |year=2009 |isbn=978-1842127353}}
* {{Cite book |last=Williams |first=Manuela |title=Mussolini's Propaganda Abroad: Subversion in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, 1935–1940 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=2006 |isbn=978-0203004777}}

;Further reading
* {{Cite book |editor-last1=Apor |editor-first1=Balázs |editor-last2=Behrends |editor-first2=Jan C. |editor-link2=Jan C. Behrends |editor-last3=Jones |editor-first3=Polly |editor-last4=Rees |editor-first4=E. A. |year=2004 |title=The Leader Cult in Communist Dictatorships: Stalin and the Eastern Bloc |location=London |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=1403934436}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Cohen |first=Yves |date=2007 |title=The cult of number one in an age of leaders |url=https://www.academia.edu/5851322 |journal=Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History |volume=8 |issue=3 |pages=597–634 |doi=10.1353/kri.2007.0032 |access-date=September 7, 2018 |s2cid=144730066}}
* {{Cite book |last=Dikötter |first=Frank |title=Dictators: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |year=2020 |isbn=978-1526626981 |location=London}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Gill |first=Graeme |date=1984 |title=Personality cult, political culture and party structure |journal=Studies in Comparative Communism |volume=17 |issue=2 |pages=111–121 |doi=10.1016/0039-3592(84)90008-5}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Melograni |first=Piero |date=1976 |title=The Cult of the Duce in Mussolini's Italy |url=https://learn.gold.ac.uk/pluginfile.php/260341/mod_resource/content/0/DictatorsReading/CultofDuce.pdf |journal=Journal of Contemporary History |volume=11 |issue=4 |pages=221–237 |doi=10.1177/002200947601100411 |access-date=September 7, 2018 |s2cid=150787157}}
* {{Cite book |last=Morgan |first=Kevin |year=2017 |title=International Communism and the Cult of the Individual Leaders, Tribunes and Martyrs under Lenin and Stalin |location=London |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-1349953370}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Paltiel |first=Jeremy |date=1983 |title=The Cult of Personality: Some Comparative Reflections on Political Culture in Leninist Regimes |journal=Studies in Comparative Communism |volume=16 |issue=1–2 |pages=49–64 |doi=10.1016/0039-3592(83)90043-1}}
* {{Cite encyclopedia |author-last=Petrone |author-first=Karen |year=2004 |title=Cult of Personality |editor-last=Millar |editor-first=James R. |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Russian History |volume=1 |pages=348–350 |isbn=978-0028656946}}
* {{Cite journal |last1=Polese |first1=Abel |last2=Horák |first2=Slavomir |date=2015 |title=A tale of two presidents: personality cult and symbolic nation-building in Turkmenistan |journal=Nationalities Papers |volume=43 |issue=3 |pages=457–478 |doi=10.1080/00905992.2015.1028913 |s2cid=142510277}}
* {{Cite encyclopedia |author-last=Rutland |author-first=P. |year=2011 |title=Cult of Personality |editor-last=Kurian |editor-first=George Thomas |editor-link=George Thomas Kurian |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Political Science |location=Washington. D.C. |publisher=CQ Press |volume=1 |page=365 |isbn=978-1608712434}}
* {{Cite encyclopedia |author-last=Vassilev |author-first=Rossen |year=2008 |title=Cult of Personality |editor-last=Darity Jr. |editor-first=William A. |editor-link=William A. Darity Jr. |encyclopedia=[[International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences]] |isbn=978-0028659657}}