1946 Central Committee resolution on the journals Zvezda and Leningrad

E706701

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.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Statements Referenced by

Statements (47)

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

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Zhdanovshchina cultural campaign notableEvent 1946 Central Committee resolution on the journals Zvezda and Leningrad