1917–1991

Ideology and propaganda

The party apparatus that managed culture, censorship, propaganda and orthodoxy.

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Leadership Timeline

  1. 1917–1929 Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky People’s Commissar for Enlightenment
  2. 1934–1948 Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov CC secretary for culture and ideology
  3. 1949–1952 Dmitri Trofimovich Shepilov CC Propaganda Department chief in late Stalinism
  4. 1957 Dmitri Trofimovich Shepilov CC secretary for ideology
  5. 1947–1982 Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov CC secretary for ideology
  6. 1961–1974 Pyotr Nilovich Demichev CC secretary for ideology and culture
  7. 1955–1986 Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev International Department chief and guardian of the communist line
  8. 1985–1990 Alexander Nikolayevich Yakovlev Politburo ideology chief and architect of glasnost