Zhdanov

Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov is rightfully the most mysterious political figure of the Epoch of Stalin. Since 1948, not a single full-fledged study of his biography in Russian has not appeared. Born in the family of Orthodox theologians, he became the leading ideologue of Stalinism. During industrialization, Gorky Automobile Plant and the first heavy tanks were built. In 1941 he created the Leningrad People"s Militia and Ice "Road of Life", but some and now consider him a culprit of the horror blockade. He publicly criticized Ahmatov, Zoshchenko, Truman and Tito. He taught the writers of socialism, philosophies of philosophy and composers of music. He was friends with Stalin and knew with Malenkov and Beria. The circumstances of his death still cause questions from historians. Members of the Stalinist Politburo considered him "softly", but now he remains a frightening gape for a part of the Russian intelligentsia and all nationalists of the Baltic States and Finland. "Zhdanovshchina exposed Western Sovietologists during the Cold War, Gorbachev during the years of restructuring and still exposes liberal journalism.
So who is A. A. Zhdanov? This book for the first time in modern Russia based on the mass of archival documents is trying to comprehensively tell about this difficult personality