Word: aleksandrov
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...years, as head of the Communist Party's Agitation and Propaganda Section, balding, sharp-eyed Philosopher Georgy Fedorovich Aleksandrov had been Russia's No. 1 ideological vigilante. In the magazine Bolshevik, and his fortnightly paper, Culture and Life, he had denounced novelists, playwrights, journalists, artists, cinema directors for pernicious ideological errors. Last week his smarting victims could loose a Homeric guffaw-Aleksandrov himself had been popped onto a hot critical griddle...
...ordinary Soviet witch-burning, and Aleksandrov no ordinary witch. Ally of Politburo Member Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov, son-in-law of Politburo Member Nikita Khrushchev, he had powerful protectors. Himself a member of the Party's Central Committee, the boss of one of its most important branches, he was close to the Soviet Union's mightiest. But it was Stalin who ordered the inquisition, and Politburo Member Andrei Zhdanov, sometimes mentioned as Stalin's probable successor, who carried it out. It was the nearest thing to a public airing of Politburo squabbling since the great purge trials...