Postwar Ideological Terror ("Zhdanovshchina") (1946–1953)
A return to total control over culture after the relative relaxations of the war years: the rout of the Ukrainian creative intelligentsia, accusations of "bourgeois nationalism" (attacks on Rylsky, Yanovsky, the persecution of Sosiura for the poem "Love Ukraine"). In parallel ran a state antisemitic campaign: "On July 18, 1952 the Military Collegium of the USSR Supreme Court passed death sentences on 13 people, including 5 natives of Ukraine… on August 12, 1952 they were all executed"[1], and in January 1953 the "Doctors' Plot" began.
Actors
Instruments Applied
| ID | Name | Procedures |
|---|---|---|
| S0021 | Propaganda | 2 |
| S0017 | Secret Police and Security Services | 1 |
Procedures Carried Out
Total ideological control over art and the press, the banning of works and the vilification of writers for alleged "bourgeois nationalism." The campaign culminated in the verdict in the case of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee: "on July 18, 1952 the Military Collegium of the USSR Supreme Court passed death sentences on 13 people, including 5 natives of Ukraine, well-known Jewish writers and poets"[1].
The staging of public political persecution (attacks on Rylsky, Sosiura, Yanovsky, the campaign against "cosmopolitans"), instilling an atmosphere of fear. Its outcome was the execution of the defendants in the JAC case: "on August 12, 1952 they were all executed"[1].
Fabricated repressions against figures of the Ukrainian and Jewish intelligentsia: in the case of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, "on July 18, 1952 the Military Collegium of the USSR Supreme Court passed death sentences on 13 people, including 5 natives of Ukraine, the well-known Jewish writers and poets D. Bergelson, D. Hofshtein, L. Kvitko, P. Markish, I. Fefer. On August 12, 1952 they were all executed"[1].