Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne, 2013, nr 5

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„Titofania”. Formy obecności symbolicznej Josipa Broza Tity w Jugosławii doby socjalizmu
(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2013) Bogusławska, Magdalena
Text is an analysis of symbolic strategies, servingcreation of Josip Broz Tito’s authority as the leader of the socialist Yugoslavia; it also reveals their cultural and political motivations. Author indicates three dominant factors in the process of cult creation, which are characteristic for the cult of personality in totalitarian systems; as such they also remain a specific continuation of traditions as a base of the local power culture. In this perspective, the Tito’s cult and political mythology as its frame is an endemic embodiment of mythological provincionalism with universal aspirations – typical for communism. The function of this cult is a consolidation of multi-nation community and legitimization of federal state formula in the conditions of immaturity of the local political culture.