Zhdanov, Andrey Aleksandrovich
- Zhdanov, Andrey Aleksandrovich
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▪ Soviet official
born Feb. 26 [Feb. 14, Old Style], 1896, Mariupol, Ukraine, Russian Empire
died Aug. 31, 1948, Moscow, Russian S.F.S.R.
Soviet government and Communist Party official.
A member of the Bolsheviks from 1915, Zhdanov rose through the party ranks after the October Revolution of 1917 and eventually became political boss of Leningrad (
St. Petersburg), leading the city's defense during the 1941–44 siege by the Germans. He was a close associate of Joseph Stalin and reached the peak of his career after World War II, when as a full member of the Politburo (from 1939) he severely tightened the ideological guidelines for postwar cultural activities (
see Zhdanovshchina). In 1947 he oversaw the founding of the international Soviet propaganda arm, the
Cominform (Communist Information Bureau). Zhdanov's death in 1948 is shrouded in mystery, but it seems to have been inopportune for his allies and followers, since it was followed by the notorious
Leningrad Affair (
q.v.), in which as many as 2,000 persons, many of them Zhdanov's associates and subordinates, were purged, probably through the efforts of his enemies Georgy Malenkov and Lavrenty Beria.
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