Stalin’s Soviet Union · TURNING POINT ·
Leningrad affair (1946–50)
On the Stalin’s Soviet Union map as “The Leningrad Affair”
1946–1950 — Leningrad was the target of Zhdanov’s decree of August 1946 against the journals Zvezda and Leningrad, which expelled Akhmatova and Zoshchenko from literary life, and then of the “Leningrad Affair”, in which its former leaders, among them Kuznetsov and Voznesensky, were shot in 1950.
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- High Stalinism (1945–53) (chapter 11 of Stalin’s Soviet Union)
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- The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
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