Zhdanovshchina at Political Glossary

What is it? Literally, era of Zhdanov. A period from 1946 to 1948 when Andrei Zhdanov, with Stalins permission, led attacks on writers, musicians, and scientists for deviance from concepts approved by the CPSU (q.v.). Many attacks were made against persons of Jewish

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