Andrei Zhdanov

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Andrei Zhdanov was a prominent Soviet politician and close associate of Joseph Stalin, known for shaping postwar cultural policy and leading major party organizations before his death in 1948.


Statements (46)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Communist Party official
Soviet politician
human
affiliation Central Committee of the CPSU
Soviet government
closeAssociateOf Joseph Stalin
countryOfCitizenship Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Soviet Union
dateOfDeath 1948
era post–World War II Soviet Union
familyName Zhdanov
fieldOfWork cultural policy
party organization
political ideology
fullName Andrei Aleksandrovich Zhdanov
givenName Andrei
hasRole Stalin’s cultural policy enforcer
chief ideologist of the CPSU
ideology Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
influenced Soviet literature policy
Soviet music policy
Soviet philosophy and science policy
languageOfWorkOrName Russian
memberOf All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
notableFor Zhdanovshchina cultural campaign
doctrine of socialist realism in the arts
ideological campaigns against perceived Western influence
leading major party organizations under Joseph Stalin
shaping postwar Soviet cultural policy
notableWork formulation of the Zhdanov Doctrine
occupation party functionary
politician
participatedIn Soviet wartime propaganda
World War II political leadership
partOf Stalinist leadership circle
placeOfDeath Soviet Union
positionHeld First Secretary of the Leningrad City Committee of the CPSU
First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the CPSU
Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU
head of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Central Committee
member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU
sexOrGender male
workLocation Leningrad
Moscow

Referenced by (5)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Andrei Zhdanov ("Zhdanov")
familyName
Mariupol ("Zhdanov")
formerName
Andrei Zhdanov ("Andrei Aleksandrovich Zhdanov")
fullName
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
notableBurial
Yuri Zhdanov
relative

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