The Heroization of the historical event in the context of personality cult formation (The case of Gökdepe battle in Turkmenistan)

Abstract

The text researches the connection between the personality cult and the formation of historical memory in the context of the authoritarian regime and the imagination of the leader in case of changing historiography of Turkmenistan (Gökdepe battle).

Keywords

• Memory
• Historiography
• authoritarian regime
• Turkmenistan
• Gökdepe