1. R. Thompson, ‘Reassessing Personality Cults: The Case of Stalin and Mao’, Studies in Comparative Communism, 21: 1(1988), pp. 99–128. On the revision of Stalinist, and later Leninist, history, see R. W. Davies, Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution (London, 1989).
2. A. Pyzhikov, ‘“XX s”ezd i obshchestvennoe mnenie’, Svobodnaya mysl’;, no. 8 (2000), pp. 76–85. Khrushchev, in his memoirs, emphasised the moral over the political motivations: N. S. Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers, trans. Strobe Talbott (London, 1971).
3. Term from S. Cohen, ‘The Stalin Question Since Stalin’ in id., Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics and History Since 1917 (New York, 1986), pp. 93–127.
4. J. Held (ed.) The Cult of Power: Dictators in the Twentieth Century (Boulder, New York, 1983);
5. G. Gill, ‘The Soviet Leader Cult: Reflections on the Structure of Leadership in the Soviet Union’, British Journal of Political Science, 10:2 (1980), pp. 167–86;