Andrei Aleksandrovitch Jdanov (in Russian: АндрейАлекса́ндровичЖданов) (February 14th 1896 = February 26th, 1896 of the new calendar - August 31st 1948) was a Soviet politician , in favor of Joseph Stalin.

Jdanov adhered to the faction Bolchevik Democratic Social Working Party of Russia in 1915 and it climbs the levels of the party, becoming its chief with Petrograd after the assassination of Sergueï Kirov in 1934.

It was a large admiror of the artistic current called of the “ socialist realism ” and it was criticized to have choked the other tendencies for a whole period during which it especially imposed great political constraints during the years 1940. The artistic aspect was erased almost in front of the needs for the exaltation of the construction of socialism and the combat against the middle-class values and reactionaries. He was thus the instigator of the artistic Jdanovisme, framing and controlling the Soviet artistic productions of 1946 to 1953.

In 1947, it organized the Kominform, of which the goal was the coordination of the Communist parties in Europe. At this meeting, it provides the foundations of the Soviet policy of Cold war: the Doctrine Jdanov sees the separation of the world in two camps, imperialist and democratic.

He died in 1948, apparently of natural cause, but on January 13rd 1953, the Pravda will publish an official statement of PCUS showing a " plot juif" organized by doctors against executives of the Party, of which Andrei Jdanov.

See also: Plot of the white blouses

The Jdanov city

In 1948, Stalin re-elects the Ukrainian city of Marioupol of the name of that which she saw being born, Jdanov. It will find its original name in 1989. The gigantic statue of Andrei Jdanov was unbolted in 1990.

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