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Zhdanov died on 31 August 1948 in Moscow of heart failure ; Nikita Khrushchev recalled in Khrushchev Remembers that Zhdanov was an alcoholic, and that during his " last days ", Stalin would shout at him to stop drinking and insist that he drink only fruit juice.
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Zhdanov and died
After Zhdanov died suddenly in August 1948, Beria and Malenkov consolidated their power by a purge of Zhdanov's associates known as the " Leningrad Affair ".
Zhdanov and on
In the following months, Abakumov started carrying out important operations without consulting Beria, often working in tandem with Zhdanov, and sometimes on Stalin's direct orders.
Zhdanov warned that if they continued to fail to maintain international contact with Moscow to consult on all matters, " extremely harmful consequences for the development of the brother parties ' work " would result.
The leader of the Leningrad Military District Andrei Zhdanov commissioned a celebratory piece from Dmitri Shostakovich, entitled " Suite on Finnish Themes " to be performed as the marching bands of the Red Army would be parading through Helsinki.
In 1958, Viktor Zhdanov, Deputy Minister of Health for the USSR, called on the World Health Assembly to undertake a global initiative to eradicate smallpox, resulting in Resolution WHA11. 54.
After the cease-fire agreement between Finland and the USSR was signed in Moscow on 4 September 1944, Zhdanov directed the Allied Control Commission in Finland until the Paris peace treaty of 1947.
* on June 28, 1948, the Cominform published, on the initiative of its Soviet delegates Zhdanov, Malenkov and Suslov, in a " Resolution on the State of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia " their condemnation of the Yugoslavian communist leaders-this happening is seen as the date that marks the final split between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.
While Shostakovich's music on the whole was virtually banned during this period due to the Zhdanov decree, smaller works such as the Fourth String Quartet and From Jewish Folk Poetry became widely known to many of the composer's compatriots through play-throughs at musicians ' homes.
He was still working on the piece at the time of the Zhdanov decree, and in the period following the composer's denunciation the work could not be performed.
Starting in 1946, there was an even more extreme crackdown on Soviet musicians, led by Andrei Zhdanov.
Zhdanov carried on the work among the armed forces in Shadrinsk, in the Urals.
The conviction of Väinö Tanner didn't shatter the Social Democrats as Zhdanov had predicted ; on the contrary, it made him a martyr and hardened the anti-communist stance in the party.
General Dapčević led the Partisan troops that along with Soviet Red Army under General Vladimir Zhdanov liberated Belgrade on October 20, 1944.
Following the Zhdanov decree of February 1948, Prokofiev started work on a shortened single-evening version of the opera, at the same time making various revisions to his original scheme, although the thirteen-scene framework remained.
Zhdanov and 31
Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov (;, Mariupol – 31 August 1948, Moscow ) was a Soviet politician.
Zhdanov and August
When Soviet troops occupied the Republic of Estonia in June 1940, Vares was installed ( by Andrei Zhdanov ) to head the puppet communist government as prime minister until August 1940, when Estonia was annexed by the Soviet Union.
Zhdanov and 1948
* 1896 – Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov, Soviet politician and ideologist ( d. 1948 )
Sergei Prokofiev too found his musical language increasingly restricted in the years after his permanent return to the Soviet Union in 1935 ( especially in the wake of the 1948 Zhdanov Decree ), although he continued to compose until the end of his life five years later.
Andrei Zhdanov, secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee, delivered the so-called Zhdanov decree in 1948.
Although Malenkov was temporarily trailing behind his rivals Andrei Zhdanov and Lavrentiy Beria, he soon came back into Joseph Stalin's favour, especially after Zhdanov's mysterious death in 1948.
In 1948, Andrei Zhdanov appointed Khrennikov Secretary of the Union of Soviet Composers, a job he would keep until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and for which he is most remembered.
Much of this censorship was the work of Andrei Zhdanov, known as Stalin's " ideological hatchet man ", until his death from a heart attack in 1948.
Andrei Zhdanov's birthplace, Mariupol, was renamed Zhdanov in his honor at Joseph Stalin's instigation in 1948, and a monument to Zhdanov was built in the central square of the city.
The symphony was criticised by Prokofiev and others at a Composers ' Plenum in March 1944, and after the Zhdanov decree of 1948 it was effectively banned until eight years later.
The work's popular success, plus Shostakovich's being awarded a Lenin Prize for it in April 1958, marked the composer's formal rehabilitation from the Zhdanov Doctrine of 1948.
Nevertheless, the fact was that the 1948 Zhdanov decree had been rescinded only in 1958, and there were also still memories of Shostakovich's 1936 denunciation.
During the Soviet period, it was known as Leningrad State University (), in 1948 — 1989 named after Zhdanov.
The piece was composed in the autumn of 1948, after Shostakovich's denunciation in the Zhdanov decree of that year.
In 1948 Shostakovich, along with many other composers, was again denounced for formalism in the Zhdanov decree.
It ridicules the Zhdanov decree of 1948 and the anti-formalism campaign in Soviet arts which followed it, and includes quotations from speeches by Zhdanov and a quotation from " Suliko " ( Joseph Stalin's favourite song ).
* Andrei Zhdanov ( 1896 – 1948 ), Stalinist politician, developer of the Zhdanov Doctrine that governed Soviet cultural activities for a number of years
* Mariupol, Ukraine, known as Zhdanov after Andrei Zhdanov from 1948 until 1989
Zhdanov and Moscow
During this meeting Andrei Zhdanov, standing in for Joseph Stalin, denounced the ' moderation ' of the French Communists, even though this policy had been previously approved by Moscow.
The agreement was signed in Moscow, as ten days earlier draft, the signature location would be Käkisalmi and the Soviet signer Andrei Zhdanov.
Zhdanov and ;
Working alongside military commander Andrei Zhdanov as German advances threatened to cut off Leningrad he displayed considerable personal bravery, prancing around in defiance of heavy shelling at Ivanovskoye ; at one point he rallied retreating troops and personally led a counter-attack against German tanks armed only with a pistol.
It was also important for the transportation of iron ores from the mines of the Kerch peninsula to the processing plant of Azovstal in Mariupol ( formerly Zhdanov ), Ukraine ; this activity stopped after the closure of the mines in the 1990s.
Alliluyeva's second marriage was arranged for her ; that husband was Yuri Zhdanov, the son of Stalin's right-hand-man Andrei Zhdanov and himself one of Stalin's close associates.
Zhdanov () or Zhdanova ( feminine ; Жданова ) is a surname and may refer to:
* Yuri Zhdanov ( 1919 – 2006 ), Russian chemist, rector of Rostov State University from 1957 to 1988 ; son of Andrei Zhdanov and former husband of Svetlana Alliluyeva
Zhdanov and was
At the end of the war, the most likely successor seemed to be Andrei Zhdanov, party leader in Leningrad during the war, who was in charge of all cultural matters by 1946.
The meeting's chair, Andrei Zhdanov, who was in permanent radio contact with the Kremlin from whom he received instructions, also castigated communist parties in France and Italy for collaboration with those countries ' domestic agendas.
She was condemned for a visit by the liberal, western, Jewish philosopher Isaiah Berlin in 1946, and Official Andrei Zhdanov publicly labelled her " half harlot, half nun ", her work " the poetry of an overwrought, upper-class lady ", her work the product of " eroticism, mysticism, and political indifference ".
The treaty was signed by Vyacheslav Molotov, Andrey Zhdanov and Aleksandr Vasilevsky for Soviet Union, and Risto Ryti, Juho Kusti Paasikivi, Rudolf Walden and Väinö Voionmaa for Finland.
Zhdanov enlisted with the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party ( Bolshevik ) in 1915 and was promoted through the party ranks, becoming the All-Union Communist Party manager in Leningrad after the assassination of Sergei Kirov in 1934.
Zhdanov was Chairman of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet from 20 July 1938 – 20 June 1947.
Though somewhat less active than Vyacheslav Molotov, Joseph Stalin, Lazar Kaganovich and Kliment Voroshilov, Zhdanov was a major perpetrator of the Great Terror and personally approved 176 documented execution lists.
During World War II, Zhdanov was in charge of the defence of Leningrad.
Zhdanov was appointed by Joseph Stalin to direct the Soviet Union's cultural policy in 1946.
During 1946 – 1947, Zhdanov was Chairman of the Soviet of the Union.
Zhdanov and his associates further sought to eliminate foreign influence from Soviet art, proclaiming that " incorrect art " was an ideological diversion.
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