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Andrei Aleksandrovich Zhdanov (Russian: Андрей Александрович Жданов, IPA: [ɐnˈdrʲej ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪdʑ ˈʐdanəf] ⓘ; 26 February [O.S. 14 February] 1896 – 31 August 1948) was a Soviet politician.
Andrey Aleksandrovich Zhdanov was a Soviet government and Communist Party official. A member of the Bolsheviks from 1915, Zhdanov rose through the party ranks after the October Revolution of 1917 and eventually became political boss of Leningrad (St. Petersburg), leading the city’s defense during.
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Andrei Zhdanov was one of Stalin's most prominent deputies and is best known as the leader of the ideological crackdown following World War II . After the assassination of Leningrad leader Sergei Kirov in 1934, Zhdanov became head of the Leningrad party organization.
The Zhdanov Doctrine (also called Zhdanovism or Zhdanovshchina; Russian: доктрина Жданова, ждановизм, ждановщина) was a Soviet cultural doctrine developed by Central Committee secretary Andrei Zhdanov in 1946.
In 1934 Andrei Zhdanov was promoted to the post of secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee in Moscow and entered the inner circle of Stalin&#x...
ZHDANOV, ANDREI (1896–1948) BIBLIOGRAPHY. Soviet Communist Party ideology chief during the late 1930s and 1940s. Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov was born into the family of a well-educated school inspector and raised in Tver province.
Andrei Aleksandrovich Zhdanov. (1896—1948) Quick Reference. (b. 26 Feb. 1896, d. 31 Aug. 1948). Soviet politician Born in Mariupol (later Zhdanov), he joined the Bolsheviks in 1915, and became an active propagandist for the party until the 1917 Russian (October) Revolution.
