Articles related tocults of personality, the result of an effort to create an idealized andheroic image of an admirable leader, often through unquestioningflattery andpraise. Historically, it has been developed through techniques such as the manipulation of themass media, the dissemination ofpropaganda, the staging ofspectacles, the manipulation ofthe arts, the instilling ofpatriotism, andgovernment-organized demonstrations and rallies. Acult of personality is similar toapotheosis, except that it is established through the use of modernsocial engineering techniques, and it is usually established by the state or the party inone-party states anddominant-party states.
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