1. Andrei Zhdanov joined the Bolsheviks in 1915 and quickly rose through the party ranks.
15 Facts About Andrei Zhdanov
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Andrei Zhdanov's campaign, known as the Zhdanovshchina, was strictly enforced and led to the denouncement of artists including Anna Akhmatova and Dmitri Shostakovich.
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Andrei Zhdanov oversaw the creation of the Cominform in 1947.
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Andrei Zhdanov was a political commissar in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War and was elected chairman of the Tver Governorate soviet in 1923.
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In September 1938, Andrei Zhdanov was appointed head of the reorganised Central Committee Directorate for Propaganda and Agitation, which brought all branches of the news media and arts under centralised party control.
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Andrei Zhdanov was Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from July 1938 to June 1947 and from 1938 he was on the military council of the Soviet Navy.
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Andrei Zhdanov's rise coincided with the fall of Nikolai Yezhov.
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Andrei Zhdanov was very publicly associated with the decision to invade Finland in November 1939.
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In June 1940, Andrei Zhdanov was sent to Estonia to supervise the establishment of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic and its annexation by the Soviet Union.
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Andrei Zhdanov made a political comeback during 1946, when his main rival, Malenkov, temporarily lost his position as a party secretary.
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Andrei Zhdanov was the founding editor-in-chief of the Agitprop journal Kultura i zhizn which he held until 1948.
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At a famous speech at Szklarska Poreba in September 1947, Andrei Zhdanov warned his fellow communists that the world was now split into two hostile camps and that the Cominform was needed to oppose the "frank expansionist programme" of the US.
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Andrei Zhdanov died on 31 August 1948 in Moscow of heart failure.
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Andrei Zhdanov's faction said proper ideology trumped science and called for prioritizing political education and ideological purity.
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Andrei Zhdanov's method reduced all of culture to a sort of chart, wherein a given symbol corresponded to a simple moral value.