Meaning of Zhdanovshchina | Babel Free
Definitions
The ideological repression of artists and intellectuals in the Soviet Union during the 1940s and 1950s.
Examples
“The Zhdanovshchina thesis about the party spirit of literature was based on the Marxist-Leninist doctrine of society and of forms of social ideology.”
“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.”
“The commencement of the Zhdanovshchina can be dated to the founding of a newspaper that would be the voice of the Central Committee's cultural apparatus until 1950, when the focus⟳ on ideology was supplanted by greater attention to personnel issues.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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