Zhdanovshchina cultural campaign

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The Zhdanovshchina cultural campaign was a late-1940s Soviet ideological drive that enforced strict Party control over literature, music, and the arts, condemning “bourgeois” and “cosmopolitan” influences in favor of rigid socialist realism.

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Label Occurrences
Zhdanov doctrine 1
Zhdanovism 1
Zhdanovshchina 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Soviet ideological campaign ⓘ
cultural policy campaign ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Zhdanovism ⓘ
appliesToJurisdiction Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ⓘ
linked to: Russian SFSR

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ⓘ
linked to: Soviet Ukraine

other Soviet republics ⓘ
consequence conformity to Party line among writers and artists ⓘ
suppression of artistic experimentation ⓘ
tightened censorship in the Soviet Union ⓘ
country Soviet Union ⓘ
criticized Anna Akhmatova ⓘ
Aram Khachaturian ⓘ
Dmitri Shostakovich ⓘ
Mikhail Zoshchenko ⓘ
Nikolai Myaskovsky ⓘ
Sergei Prokofiev ⓘ
endTime early 1950s ⓘ
enforcedStyle socialist realism ⓘ
follows World War II ⓘ
goal eliminate ideological deviation in the arts ⓘ
promote Soviet patriotism ⓘ
promote anti-Western attitudes ⓘ
strengthen Party control over culture ⓘ
historicalContext early Cold War ⓘ
ideology Marxism–Leninism ⓘ
Stalinism ⓘ
linked to: Stalin era
implementedBy Agitation and Propaganda Department of the CPSU ⓘ
Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ
keyFigure Andrei Zhdanov ⓘ
Georgy Malenkov ⓘ
Joseph Stalin ⓘ
languageOfTerm Russian ⓘ
mainFocus cinema ⓘ
humanities ⓘ
literature ⓘ
music ⓘ
theatre ⓘ
visual arts ⓘ
method Party resolutions ⓘ
censorship ⓘ
public denunciations ⓘ
purges of cultural institutions ⓘ
namedAfter Andrei Zhdanov ⓘ
notableEvent 1946 Central Committee resolution on the journals Zvezda and Leningrad ⓘ
1948 Central Committee resolution on music ⓘ
opposes Western cultural influence ⓘ
bourgeois influences ⓘ
cosmopolitanism ⓘ
formalism in the arts ⓘ
relatedConcept anti-cosmopolitan campaign in the Soviet Union ⓘ
doctrine of two camps ⓘ
sloganOrDoctrine Party-mindedness in art ⓘ
startTime 1946 ⓘ

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Andrei Zhdanov → notableFor → Zhdanovshchina cultural campaign ⓘ
Zhdanovshchina cultural campaign → alsoKnownAs → Zhdanovism ⓘ
linked to: Zhdanovshchina cultural campaign
1946 Central Committee resolution on the journals Zvezda and Leningrad → partOf → Zhdanovshchina ⓘ
linked to: Zhdanovshchina cultural campaign
1946 Central Committee resolution on the journals Zvezda and Leningrad → relatedTo → Zhdanov doctrine ⓘ
linked to: Zhdanovshchina cultural campaign