đź“… 17 November 1938
The decree ended the main mass operations and condemned “violations” by security officials. It did not end political repression; it shifted its procedures and helped the leadership control the...
đź“… 14 August 1946
A Central Committee resolution condemned Zvezda and Leningrad, and Andrei Zhdanov publicly attacked writers and satirists. The intervention marked a broad campaign to discipline intellectual life in...
đź“… 22 September 1947
At the founding conference of the Communist Information Bureau, Andrei Zhdanov described a world divided into imperialist and anti-imperialist camps. The new body coordinated ruling communist...
đź“… 5 October 1947
The Communist Information Bureau coordinated several European communist parties and strengthened Moscow’s influence over the postwar movement. Its creation came amid the hardening Cold War and...
đź“… 8 September 1941
The siege cut the city’s main land connections and subjected civilians to starvation, bombardment, cold, and disease. Stalin’s wartime leadership did not remove the immense human cost; Leningraders’...
đź“… 14 August 1946
A Central Committee resolution attacked writers Anna Akhmatova and Mikhail Zoshchenko and tightened control over literary life. The campaign narrowed cultural debate and made publication dependent...
đź“… 22 September 1947
Representatives of communist parties met in Szklarska Poręba, Poland, and established the Communist Information Bureau. The organization coordinated parties in Europe and strengthened Moscow’s...
đź“… 10 February 1948
A Central Committee resolution denounced Vano Muradeli’s opera and condemned prominent composers including Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev. It made artistic work answerable to political...
