Changing the Face of Power: The Literary Re-education of a Dictator

In communist Albania in the early seventies a controversial novel appeared from the hand of leading writer, Ismail Kadare. The dictator, Enver Hoxha appeared in an idealized role in the context of the break with Khrushchev’s post-Stalinist Soviet Union in 1961. However this was no mere panegyric. Ka...

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Main Author: Morgan, Peter (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2018
In: Politics, religion & ideology
Year: 2018, Volume: 19, Issue: 4, Pages: 562-581
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