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Andrei Zhdanov

Andrei Zhdanov
Andrei Zhdanov, Ukrainian-Russian civil servant and politician (d. 1948)

Andrei Aleksandrovich Zhdanov was a Soviet politician and ideologue. He has been described as the Soviet Union's "propagandist-in-chief" in the 1940s, and was responsible for developing the Soviet cultural policy, the Zhdanov Doctrine, which remained in effect until the death of Joseph Stalin. Zhdanov was considered Stalin's most likely successor but died before him.

26 February 1896

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