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...growth of Russia's foreign influence; before the Kremlin was ready for the really strenuous efforts required to buck the Byrnes line, it had to turn its attention homeward, where chubby Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov, Stalin's deputy in the party, is now the chief executor of the Politburo's intensified domestic policy. The new Soviet line was a perfect example of Lenin's way of thinking about foreign policy, as explained by the Soviet theoretician, M. Leonov...
...escalator until he could expect (or at least hope for) succession to the biggest political job on earth. His father was a school inspector in Tver (now Kalinin), about 100 miles northwest of Moscow. Zhdanov had a better education (including German and French) than any present member of the Politburo. He joined the Bolsheviks in 1915 when he was 19, and had an undistinguished career as an organizer until, after years of fidelity to Stalin, his great chance came...
When Stalin celebrated his 60th birthday on Dec. 21, 1939, every member of the Politburo but Zhdanov had some variation of the congratulatory tribute to "our father and teacher, our bright sun, hope and glory of peoples" printed in all Russian newspapers. Zhdanov was not even allowed at the party...
...ever made of the inadequacy of its state-monopoly trade system, Communist Russia started beating the drums last week for something suspiciously like the profit motive. Pravda proclaimed that the "monopolist" position of state stores was hurting trade and lowering production. It demanded "healthy competition." Andrei Zhdanov, the Politburo's rising spokesman, said that consumer cooperatives must be encouraged. The Kremlin promptly did so, with five capitalistic incentive devices...
...Stalin has picked as his successor: swart, stocky Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov, 50. He is secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, and is also chairman of the Supreme Soviet (Russian parliament), boss of Leningrad, colonel-general in the Russian Army and member of the potent, 14-man Politburo...