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Andrei Zhdanov
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Soviet politician (1896-1948)
Andrei Zhdanov was a powerful Soviet politician and Stalin's close ally who served as a top Communist Party official from the 1930s until his death in 1948. He is historically significant for enforcing strict ideological control over Soviet culture and the arts, and for his hardline role in early Cold War tensions between the Soviet Union and the West.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Andrey
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Mariupol
- Place of death
- Moscow
- Child
- Yuri Zhdanov
- Occupation
- military personnel
- Political party
- Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (bolshevik)
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Award
- Order of Lenin
- Participant in
- 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party
- Field of work
- politics
- Conflict
- Battle for Leningrad
- Military rank
- colonel general
- Image
- Andrei Zhdanov (cropped).jpg
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- Commons category
- Andrei Zhdanov
- date of birth
- 1896-02-26
- date of death
- 1948-08-31
- place of burial
- Kremlin Wall Necropolis
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- allegiance
- Soviet Union
- name in native language
- Андрей Жданов
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Encyclopedic overview
Several others (see below) Military service Allegiance Russian Empire (1916–1917) Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1917–1922) Soviet Union (1922–1948) Branch/serviceImperial Russian Army Red Army Soviet Armed Forces Years of service 1918–1949 RankColonel general Battles/wars World War II Winter War
Invasion of Estonia
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