1946 Central Committee resolution on the journals Zvezda and Leningrad
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The 1946 Central Committee resolution on the journals Zvezda and Leningrad was a key Soviet decree that launched the Zhdanovshchina campaign by condemning perceived ideological deviations in literature and tightening state control over cultural life.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Soviet decree
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censorship measure ⓘ political resolution ⓘ |
| adoptedBy |
Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
NERFINISHED
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Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| aim |
combating perceived ideological deviations
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enforcing socialist realism in literature ⓘ tightening state control over cultural life ⓘ |
| authority | Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| condemned |
apolitical and individualistic tendencies in literature
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bourgeois influences in Soviet literature ⓘ cosmopolitanism in culture ⓘ formalism in literature ⓘ ideological laxity in literature ⓘ |
| country | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| criticized |
journal Leningrad
NERFINISHED
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journal Zvezda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| date | 1946-08-14 ⓘ |
| enforcedDoctrine | socialist realism ⓘ |
| field |
Soviet culture
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literature ⓘ |
| followedBy | campaign against Akhmatova and Zoshchenko ⓘ |
| genre | party resolution ⓘ |
| historicalContext | post-World War II Soviet Union ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | late Stalinism ⓘ |
| ideology |
Marxism–Leninism
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Stalinism ⓘ |
| influenced |
Soviet cultural policy in the early Cold War
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Soviet literary policy in the late 1940s ⓘ |
| initiatedBy | Andrei Zhdanov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Russian ⓘ |
| location | Moscow ⓘ |
| partOf | Zhdanovshchina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| policyType |
cultural policy
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ideological control ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Soviet censorship
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Soviet literary criticism ⓘ Zhdanov doctrine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| resultedIn |
increased censorship of literature
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purges in literary organizations ⓘ restrictions on publication of nonconformist authors ⓘ strengthening of party control over writers ⓘ |
| subject |
journal Leningrad
NERFINISHED
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journal Zvezda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetedGroup |
Soviet writers
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editors of literary journals ⓘ literary critics ⓘ |
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