English Explanatory Dictionary

Zhdanovshchina

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The ideological repression of artists and intellectuals in the Soviet Union during the 1940s and 1950s.

Word forms

Zhdanovshchina

Etymology

From Russian ждановщина (ždanovščina); after Andrei Zhdanov, who was in charge of the "Anti-Cosmopolitan Campaign" under Stalin

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