Zhdanov Doctrine

Hello, little one! Today we are going to talk about something called the Zhdanov Doctrine. It was named after a man named Andrei Zhdanov who was a politician in the Soviet Union a long time ago.

The Zhdanov Doctrine was all about controlling what people could see and hear. Zhdanov wanted to make sure that only certain ideas and thoughts were allowed in the Soviet Union. He believed that anything that was not approved by the government was harmful and should not be shared with the people.

This meant that the government had a lot of control over what was shown on TV and what was written in newspapers or books. Only things that supported the government's ideas were allowed. Artists, authors, and scientists had to make sure that their work followed these rules too.

The Zhdanov Doctrine was used to enforce something called Socialist Realism, which meant that all art had to be about the greatness of the government and the Soviet Union. This meant that artists couldn't make art about things that were bad or critical of the government.

So, in short, the Zhdanov Doctrine was a set of rules that made sure only certain ideas and thoughts were allowed in the Soviet Union, and anything that went against the government's ideas was not allowed.