Conversations with Stalin (22 page)

 

MIJALKO TODOROVIĆ (1913– )

Yugoslav Communist leader. He began his Party career in the youth movement. He fought in the Partisan ranks during the Second World War. After the liberation he served in the Ministry of Defense, as Director of the Extraordinary Administration of Supply. Minister of Agriculture, and Chief of the Council for Agriculture and Forestry.

 

ALEKSANDR MIKHAILOVICH VASILEVSKY (1895– )

Leading Soviet general and Chief of the Soviet General Staff at the time of the Battle of Stalingrad. He was made a Marshal in 1943, and was commander of the Byelorussian Front in 1945. Since then he has served as Minister of War.

 

NIKOLAI F. VATUTIN (1901–1944)

Soviet general. With Konev and Malinovsky, he distinguished himself in the liberation of the Ukraine from the German Army.

 

VELJKO VLAHOVIĆ (1914– )

Montenegrin member of the Yugoslav Communist Party since 1935. He fought in the Spanish Civil War and was especially active in organizing the Communist Youth League of Yugoslavia. During the Second World War he directed the Free Yugoslavia radio station. He returned to Yugoslavia at the end of 1944 to serve as editor of the Communist daily,
Borba
, and as Deputy Foreign Minister. He has gained considerable reputation as a theoretician, especially since Djilas's fall.

 

NIKOLAI ALEKSEYEVICH VOZNESENSKY (1903–1950)

Leading Soviet economist. During the Great Purge, he rose rapidly to the post of Chairman of the State Planning Commission (Gosplan), which plans and co-ordinates the whole Soviet economy. He was also Deputy Prime Minister in 1939 and a member of the State Defense Committee during the war. Candidate member of the Politburo in 1941 and full member in 1948, he was stripped of all his posts in 1949 during Malenkov's campaign against Zhdanov's followers, and was arrested and shot on Stalin's orders.

 

SVETOZAR VUKMANOVIĆ-TEMPO (1912– )

Montenegrin who joined Yugoslav Communist Youth in 1933 and became a Party member in 1935. His specialty in underground work was organizing clandestine presses. During the Second World War he served in Partisan Supreme Headquarters and was Tito's personal representative in Macedonia. In 1943 he was Chief Political Commissar in the People's Liberation Army. After the war he was active in the Federal Assembly and Central Planning and Central Economic Commissions. He is one of the closest collaborators of Tito.

 

KOČI XOXE (d.1948)

Albanian Communist leader who, thanks to Yugoslav backing, became the most powerful man in the Albanian Communist Party just after the Second World War, as Minister of the Interior and head of the Secret Police. At the time of the Tito-Cominform break, he was executed on charges of Trotskyite and Titoist activities.

 

ANDREI ALEKSANDROVICH ZHDANOV (1896–1948)

Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee from 1935. He was a candidate member of the Politburo in 1934 and a full member in 1939. In charge of ideological affairs, he made Socialist Realism in the arts obligatory and directed the postwar campaign against Western cultural influences. During the Second World War he was a leader in the defense of Leningrad. He was prominent in the founding of the Cominform.

 

GEORGI KONSTANTINOVICH ZHUKOV (1894– )

Marshal of the Soviet Union. He served in the Bolshevik forces in 1917. In 1941 he was Chief of Staff of the Red Army and conducted the defense of Moscow against the Germans. He was First Vice-Commissar of Defense in 1942, and the following year was promoted to Marshal.

 

VALERIAN ALEXANDROVICH ZORIN (1902– )

Soviet diplomat. Among the posts he has held have been: Assistant General Secretary of the National Commissariat of Foreign Affairs (1941), Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (1945–1948), Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (1948), and Ambassador to the German Federal Republic (1956–1958). Since 1960 he has been Permanent Soviet Representative to the United Nations.

 

MIKHAIL MIKHAILOVICH ZOSHCHENKO (1895–1958)

Soviet author best known for his satirical works and his treatment of the bewildered “little man” in Soviet society. In 1946 Zhdanov made him a prime target in the Party campaign to impose its control over cultural life. He was expelled from the Writers' Union and lived in obscurity until his death.

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