Political Campaigns under Growing Ideological Dictatorship of Communist Party in 1946-1951
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Nina M. Toboltseva
PhD in History, Associate Professor at the Chair of History and Legal Regulation of Domestic Media, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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In this paper author for the first time attempts to reveal objective and subjective factors of strengthening of ideological dictatorship of the Communist Party (VKP) during the post-war period. The special attention is given to propaganda campaign in the soviet press after VKP Central Committee decision “About magazines Zvezda and Leningrad” (August, 1946). This campaign had large-scale, systemic character and concerned the majority of the printed media.