Andrei Zhdanov
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Andrei Aleksandrovich Zhdanov was a Soviet politician. He was the Soviet Union's "propagandist-in-chief" after the Second World War, and was responsible for developing the Soviet cultural policy, the
Zhdanov in 1946
Zhdanov c. 1934
The Soviet leadership signs a treaty with the Finnish Democratic Republic, 1939 (Standing from left to right are Andrei Zhdanov, Kliment Voroshilov, Joseph Stalin and Otto Kuusinen; Vyacheslav Molotov is seated).
Zhdanov in 1941
Georgy Malenkov
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Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov was a Soviet politician who succeeded Joseph Stalin as Premier and the overall leader of the Soviet Union in March 1953. Shortly thereafter, Malenkov entered into a pow
Andrei Zhdanov
…health and fell out of favour as a result of the Tito–Stalin split. He died of heart failure in 1948, resulting in a rise in the political fortunes of Georgy Malenkov. Zhdanov was born on 26 February [O.S. 14 February] 1896 in Mariupol, Mariupol uezd, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine), where…
Official portrait, 1950
Mikhail Kalinin, Georgy Malenkov, Joseph Stalin and Aleksandr Shcherbakov at the commemoration of the 18th anniversary of Lenin's death.
Malenkov on the cover of Time magazine, 23 March 1953
Malenkov and Khrushchev speaking with West German chancellor Konrad Adenauer alongside other members of the Soviet leadership in 1955