Zhdanovshchina cultural campaign

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The Zhdanovshchina cultural campaign was a late-1940s Soviet ideological drive that enforced strict Party control over literature, music, and the arts, condemning “bourgeois” and “cosmopolitan” influences in favor of rigid socialist realism.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Soviet ideological campaign
cultural policy campaign
alsoKnownAs Zhdanovshchina cultural campaign
surface form: Zhdanovism
appliesToJurisdiction Russian SFSR
surface form: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

Soviet Ukraine
surface form: Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

other Soviet republics
consequence conformity to Party line among writers and artists
suppression of artistic experimentation
tightened censorship in the Soviet Union
country Soviet Union
criticized Anna Akhmatova
Aram Khachaturian
Dmitri Shostakovich
Mikhail Zoshchenko
Nikolai Myaskovsky
Sergei Prokofiev
endTime early 1950s
enforcedStyle socialist realism
follows World War II
goal eliminate ideological deviation in the arts
promote Soviet patriotism
promote anti-Western attitudes
strengthen Party control over culture
historicalContext early Cold War
ideology Marxism–Leninism
Stalin era
surface form: Stalinism
implementedBy Department for Agitation and Propaganda
surface form: Agitation and Propaganda Department of the CPSU

Communist Party of the Soviet Union
keyFigure Andrei Zhdanov
Georgy Malenkov
Joseph Stalin
languageOfTerm Russian
mainFocus cinema
humanities
literature
music
theatre
visual arts
method Party resolutions
censorship
public denunciations
purges of cultural institutions
namedAfter Andrei Zhdanov
notableEvent 1946 Central Committee resolution on the journals Zvezda and Leningrad
1948 Central Committee resolution on music
opposes Western cultural influence
bourgeois influences
cosmopolitanism
formalism in the arts
relatedConcept anti-cosmopolitan campaign in the Soviet Union
doctrine of two camps
sloganOrDoctrine Party-mindedness in art
startTime 1946

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Andrei Zhdanov notableFor Zhdanovshchina cultural campaign
Zhdanovshchina cultural campaign alsoKnownAs Zhdanovshchina cultural campaign
this entity surface form: Zhdanovism