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 1945
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).
Nikolai Alekseevich Voznesensky was a Soviet politician and economic planner who oversaw the running of Gosplan during the German–Soviet War of 1941–1945. A protégé of Andrei Zhdanov, Voznesensky was