The jdanovism represents the rigorous political designs of Andreï Jdanov, which narrowly framed all the artistic productions of Soviet Union, defining in a precise way “the politically correct one” of then.

During the Stalinist period

From 1946 to 1953, the artistic jdanovism transcended the egocentric people goals of the censure Totalitaire - apparently, it wanted to define a news and universal design of artistic creation, valid for all the countries. Its method reduced the entirety of the cultural field to concepts positivists and scientists, or each symbol corresponded to a given moral value. Roland Barthes summarized the designs of Jdanov about in the following way: “The wine is the objectively good… artist must return the kindness of the wine, not the wine itself. ”

The poetess Anna Akhmatova, was according to Jdanov, “a nun or a whore, or rather at the same time a nun and a whore who Marie indecency with the prayer”.

Critics and historians of the literature were denounced to have suggested that the Russian traditional writers had been influenced by Molière or Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Lord Byron or Charles Dickens.

Jdanov was especially known for its criticism of Dmitri Chostakovitch or Sergueï Eisenstein, but of the less known artists and notoriety lack had to fear much more of him and its agents.

After the death of Stalin

After the death of Stalin in 1953, the artists were exposed to the threat of the jdanovism and the censure became less wild. The result of this easing was a great development of artistic creation in the USSR, in the field of the abstract art and formal. Those were prohibited before and they then became the refuge against official criticism (a work which the critics did not include/understand did not expose any more to the reprisals and was not suspect any more in itself by principle). However, ten years later, when the less strict direction of Khrouchtchev was however accompanied by a return of the censure, the artists who had had a name abroad during this revival remained relatively protected by their international repute. Astonishing doubles manner appeared for those which could expose their works and establish their notoriety in the Western countries.

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