Zhdanovshchina

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  1. 1
    The ideological repression of artists and intellectuals in the Soviet Union during the 1940s and 1950s. historical

    "The Zhdanovshchina thesis about the party spirit of literature was based on the Marxist-Leninist doctrine of society and of forms of social ideology."

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"The Zhdanovshchina thesis about the party spirit of literature was based on the Marxist-Leninist doctrine of society and of forms of social ideology."

Etymology

From Russian ждановщина (ždanovščina); after Andrei Zhdanov, who was in charge of the "Anti-Cosmopolitan Campaign" under Stalin

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