People of the Revolution and the USSR

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Dmitri Trofimovich Shepilov

Дмитрий Трофимович Шепилов
Soviet Union state institutions Soviet communism Soviet Union Turkmenistan 1905–1995 ↓ Removed 1957

Khrushchev’s theoretician who became “Shepilov who joined them”

June 1957 Presidium. Khrushchev cut off Shepilov's criticism: "How long did you study?" Shepilov: "Gymnasium, secondary school, three years at the Institute of Red Professors, four years of university." "I studied two winters with a priest — for a sack of potatoes." "Then why do you claim to know everything?!"

An economist who led the USSR's first political economy textbook, a rare intellectual in the party. Exempt from service, he volunteered in 1941 and finished the war as a major general. Rising through Agitprop and Pravda, he became a key Khrushchev theoretician, crafting the ideological language of de-Stalinization. As foreign minister in 1956 he opened Third World diplomacy during Suez. But he joined the Anti-Party Group the next year and fell under the mocking tag 'Shepilov who joined them.' He spent decades in obscurity in Kyrgyzstan and the state archive; his memoir The Unjoined brought posthumous reappraisal.

Career timeline
  • 1926Graduates from Moscow State University law faculty; works in the Yakutsk prosecution service
  • 1931–1933Studies at the Institute of Red Professors; works on agrarian and Marxist economics
  • 1937–1941Scientific secretary at the Academy of Sciences Institute of Economics; teaches and researches economics
  • 1941–1946Wartime political officer, ending the war as a major general
  • 1946–1949Works in military propaganda and the party Propaganda and Agitation apparatus
  • 1949–1952Heads the Central Committee Propaganda Department in late Stalinism
  • 1952–1956Editor-in-chief of Pravda and party theoretician from late Stalin to early Khrushchev
  • 1955–1956Central Committee secretary and theoretician for Khrushchev’s line
  • 1956–1957Foreign minister during the Suez crisis and the opening to the Third World
  • 1957Falls after joining the Anti-Party Group
  • 1957–1960Sent to the Kyrgyz Academy of Sciences Institute of Economics
  • 1960–1982Works in the Soviet state archive, politically sidelined