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Pavel Ivanovich Lebedev-Poliansky Павел Иванович Лебедев-Полянский Architect and first head of the Soviet censorship apparatus Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1881–1948
Fedor Ivanovich Kalinin Фёдор Иванович Калинин Proletkult's worker-intellectual: a weaver by origin and theorist of proletarian culture Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1920
Boris Zakharovich Shumyatsky Борис Захарович Шумяцкий The revolutionary who built Soviet cinema's golden age and dreamed of a Soviet Hollywood Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1886–1938
Oleksandr Yakovlevich Shumsky Александр Яковлевич Шумский Pioneer of Ukrainian national communism, the original 'Shumskyism' Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1946
Konstantin Aleksandrovich Fedin Константин Александрович Федин Novelist who began as a Serapion Brother and became the chief gatekeeper of Soviet literature for 18 years Literature and arts · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1977
Ivan Mikhailovich Gronsky Иван Михайлович Гронский The literary commissar who coined 'socialist realism' with Stalin Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1894–1985
Alexei Alexandrovich Surkov Алексей Александрович Сурков Poet of "Zemlyanka" and the Writers' Union enforcer who led the campaign against Pasternak Literature and arts · Soviet Union state institutions 1899–1983
Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev Александр Александрович Фадеев Writers’ Union manager who killed himself at the thaw Literature and arts · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1956
Aram Ilyich Khachaturian Арам Ильич Хачатурян Composer who fused Armenian folk melody with the Soviet symphony Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1903–1978
Mikhail Borisovich Khrapchenko Михаил Борисович Храпченко Soviet arts chief felled by the Zhdanov anti-formalism campaign, who rebuilt a career as a leading Gogol and Tolstoy scholar Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1904–1986
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Mikhailov Николай Александрович Михайлов Stalin's youth mobilizer turned Thaw-era Culture Minister, a party apparatus survivor Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1906–1982
Alexei Vladimirovich Romanov Алексей Владимирович Романов The Goskino chairman who harvested Politburo phone calls every Monday and enforced cuts he didn't always believe in Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1908–1998
Yekaterina Alexeyevna Furtseva Екатерина Алексеевна Фурцева Long-serving culture minister between thaw and control Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1910–1974
Georgy Mokeevich Markov Георгий Мокеевич Марков The Brezhnev-era literary gatekeeper who celebrated Siberia while enforcing official aesthetics as head of the Writers' Union for 15 years Literature and arts · Soviet Union state institutions 1911–1991
Sergey Georgiyevich Lapin Сергей Георгиевич Лапин Brezhnev's broadcasting czar who ran all Soviet TV and radio for 15 years Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1912–1990
Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov Тихон Николаевич Хренников Gatekeeper of Soviet music for 43 years Literature and arts · Soviet Union state institutions 1913–2007
Sergey Vladimirovich Mikhalkov Сергей Владимирович Михалков The poet who wrote the anthem for Stalin, Brezhnev, and Putin Literature and arts · Soviet Union state institutions 1913–2009
Filipp Timofeyevich Yermash Филипп Тимофеевич Ермаш The party functionary who ran Soviet cinema as a state Hollywood: blockbusters, Oscars, and ideological control Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–2002
Alexei Ivanovich Adzhubey Алексей Иванович Аджубей Khrushchev's son-in-law and the editor who turned Izvestia into the most-read Soviet newspaper of the thaw Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1924–1993
Vasily Georgievich Zakharov Василий Георгиевич Захаров Propaganda-trained culture minister who executed glasnost-era cultural liberalization Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1934–2023
Nikolai Nikolayevich Gubenko Николай Николаевич Губенко The last Soviet culture minister Literature and arts · Soviet Union state institutions 1941–2020