1917–1991

Culture and literary control

The leadership that set the boundaries of permissible education, literature, art and culture.

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Leadership Timeline

  1. 1917–1929 Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky People’s Commissar for Enlightenment
  2. 1934–1948 Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov CC culture and ideology overseer
  3. 1946–1954 Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev Writers’ Union secretary and chairman
  4. 1960–1974 Yekaterina Alexeyevna Furtseva Minister of Culture
  5. 1974–1986 Pyotr Nilovich Demichev Minister of Culture
  6. 1989–1991 Nikolai Nikolayevich Gubenko Minister of Culture