Zhdanovshchina
Zhdanovshchina proper noun: the ideological repression of artists and intellectuals in the Soviet Union during the 1940s and 1950s.
Proper noun
Zhdanovshchina
- The ideological repression of artists and intellectuals in the Soviet Union during the 1940s and 1950s.
- The Zhdanovshchina thesis about the party spirit of literature was based on the Marxist-Leninist doctrine of society and of forms of social ideology.1972, Linden M. Renner, Andrei Aleksandrovich Zhdanov: A Political-career Sketch, page 81
- Traditional accounts portray the Zhdanovshchina as a return to the prewar strident party line, the reassertion of ideological control over culture, and the purging of literature and the arts of Western influences.2001, Serhy Yekelchyk, “Celebrating the Soviet Present: The Zhdanovshchina campaign in Ukrainian Literature and the Arts”, in Donald J. Raleigh, editor, Provincial Landscapes: Local Dimensions of...
Origin of Zhdanovshchina
From Russian ждановщина (ždanovščina); after Andrei Zhdanov, who was in charge of the "Anti-Cosmopolitan Campaign" under Stalin
Questions about Zhdanovshchina
- What does Zhdanovshchina mean?
- Zhdanovshchina means the ideological repression of artists and intellectuals in the Soviet Union during the 1940s and 1950s.
- What part of speech is Zhdanovshchina?
- Zhdanovshchina is a proper noun.
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