📅 17 Novèmber 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...
📅 14 Ougùstùs 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...
📅 22 Sèptèmber 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...
📅 5 Òktober 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...
📅 8 Sèptèmber 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’...
📅 14 Ougùstùs 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...
📅 22 Sèptèmber 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...
📅 10 Febrüari 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...
