Etymology

Zhdanovshchina

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Today it means: The ideological repression of artists and intellectuals in the Soviet Union during the 1940s and 1950s. Full definition →

Russian ждановщина
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  1. Russian · borrowed fromждановщина
  2. English todayZhdanovshchina

From Russian ждановщина (ždanovščina); after Andrei Zhdanov, who was in charge of the "Anti-Cosmopolitan Campaign" under Stalin

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