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Who Is Joseph Stalin's Second Zhdanov Decrees?

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Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) announced the Great Nature Transformation Plan on 20 October 1948 to overcome the yearly droughts by building shelterbelts in the European part of the Soviet Union. Meanwhile, in the Soviet art world, Stalin’s Russian Nationalism reached the pinnacle in the year 1946 and 1948 with the birth of the first and second Zhdanov decrees, which set a firm boundary to the freedom of expression of the artists and musicians. In 1949, when the Zhdanov decrees had already made a severe impact on the artistic career of Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975), he composed the oratorio Song of the Forests op. 81. Not only did this oratorio praise Stalin’s Great Nature Transformation Plan, it was also sonically different from Shostakovich’s

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