Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

zhdanovshchina

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: zh-danovshchi-na
IPA

38

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The ideological repression of artists and intellectuals in the Soviet Union during the 1940s and 1950s.

Example Sentences

"The Zhdanovshchina thesis about the party spirit of literature was based on the Marxist-Leninist doctrine of society and of forms of social ideology."
"Traditional accounts portray the Zhdanovshchina as a return to the prewar strident party line, the reassertion of ideological control over culture, and the purging of literature and the arts of Western influences."
"The commencement of the Zhdanovshchina can be dated to the founding of a newspaper that would be the voice of the Central Committee's cultural apparatus until 1950, when the focus on ideology was supplanted by greater attention to personnel issues."

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Russian

Word Breakdown

Root: ждановщина

Questions

What does zhdanovshchina mean?: The ideological repression of artists and intellectuals in the Soviet Union during the 1940s and 1950s.
Where does zhdanovshchina come from?: It is traced to Russian.

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