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20: 384:, when a soldier named Vavilov tells his comrades: "Once, I had to drive a lecturer from Moscow to the front - Pavel Fyodorovich Yudin. The member of the Military Soviet had said that it would be the end of me if I lost so much as a hair off his head. Now that was really hard work. We had to dive straight into the ditch if a plane came anywhere near. But Comrade Yudin certainly knew how to take care of himself - I'll say that for him." 287:. A few minutes later the door opened and Yudin came in, bowing towards Zhdanov while he was approaching him. He left the newspaper on the table and retreated, bowing all the time. He covered in that way more than six or seven yards, because the room was rather large, and in bowing himself out he backed into the door, while nervously trying to find the doorknob with his hand. 363:. On his return, he blamed Khrushchev, rather than Mao, for the split, to which Khrushchev retorted: "I might remark with some justification that we were sure to have discord with any country where Yudin was sent as ambassador. Yudin was sent to Yugoslavia and we had a falling out with Tito. Yudin went to China, and we had a falling out with Mao. This is no coincidence." 314:, which had expressed solidarity with liberation movements in Asia. In that instance, he was almost certainly following orders, because he was allowed almost no initiative while running this magazine, every issue of which had to be sent to Moscow for approval before it could be published. - but according to the future Soviet leader, 306:. There he played a major role in the split between the USSR and Yugoslavia, which culminated in the Yugoslav communist party's expulsion from Cominform, and a failed attempt by Moscow to destroy the Tito regime. In March 1948, Yudin suppressed an article written for the journal by the Yugoslav communists 322:
Soon afterwards, the Soviet Union withdrew its advisers. On 27 March 1948, the Soviet leadership sent a letter Tito setting out various complaints, including an allegation that Yudin was under surveillance in Belgrade. Tito later alleged: "Yudin's work in Belgrade was not restricted to the paper. He
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exposing Stalin's crimes.) Having delivered a speech to the Central Committee plenum afterwards, Yudin reputedly exclaimed, purely out of habit "Long live Comrade Stalin!" - which produced an embarrassed silence, followed by an apology from the speaker. He was recalled from China after the split
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My attitude to Yudin is becoming more and more negative. I'm offended by his peasant cunning, his lack of principle, his duplicity, and the cowardice of someone who, while aware of his own personal impotence, attempts to surround himself with people even more insignificant and to hide among
245:. In 1940–42, Yudin and Mitin edited the three volume История философий (Istoriya filosofi - History of Philosophy), which won the 1942 Stalin Prize, reputedly the first book on philosophy to achieve that award. But in May 1944, the third volume was attacked in an editorial in the magazine 318:, he used his position to sow trouble between Tito and Stalin, by sending Stalin a report alleging that the Yugoslavs had made insulting remarks about the military and technical advisers sent to them from the Soviet Union. The report was circulated to members of the Soviet 1001: 1006: 338:
of the Soviet Communist Party, at which he was made a member of the Central Committee and a candidate member of the Praesidium of the Central Committee. After the Congress, he was sent to Berlin as political advisor to the Soviet Control Commission in
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In 1950, when Stalin was concerned that China might be the next communist country to refuse to recognise him as leader of the communist bloc, Yudin was dispatched to Beijing, to assist in arranging publication of the works of
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At the end of 1947 I paid a visit to Zhdanov about some problems relating to Albania. While we were discussing the matter, the telephone rang and Zhdanov told me that Yudin was coming with an issue of the
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took an active part in preparing the final reckoning with Yugoslavia. He tried hard to poison relations between Yugoslavia and her neighbours, especially Bulgaria and Albania."
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from 3 December 1953 to 15 October 1959. He was re-elected to the Central Committee at the 20th Party Congress in 1956 (the one during which Khrushchev delivered the
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as the greater philosopher. Unable to dislodge Deborin from his commanding position in the Institute of Red Professors, or his control over the scientific magazine
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was a German nationalist and racist. The Stalin Prize committee revised its previous decision, saying that the prize was for the first two volumes of the
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idealism'. Yudin went on to claim that “the works of Comrade Stalin continue the best traditions of the founders of Marxism.”.
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as the most authoritative Russian Marxist philosopher. Yudin and his co-signatories - who included his long time colleague
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survived despite being denounced by Yudin, in the same letter as "a two-faced Janus, the toady of Yagoda and Kryuchkov."
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of having 'poisoned' Gorky's relations with the writers union. Those four were all executed, but the historian
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Candidates of the Central Committee of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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When Cominform was founded, in October 1947, Yudin was appointed editor of the Cominform journal,
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Members of the Central Committee of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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1919–21, and graduated from the Zinoviev University (later renamed the Stalin University) in
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Candidates of the Presidium of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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peasants, Yudin worked as a lathe operator in a railway workshop in 1917–19. He joined the
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International Policy Formation in the USSR, Factional "Debates" during the Zhdanovshchina
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In 1960–68, Yudin worked at the Institute of Philosophy of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
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official specialising in the fields of culture and sociology, and later a diplomat.
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Postwar Soviet Politics, The Fall of Zhdanov and the Defeat of Moderation 1946-53
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between the USSR and China, which followed Khrushchev's meeting with
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Fourth convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
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Third convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
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These setback in Yudin's were obviously connected to the rise of
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as an associate of Averbakh and of the ousted former NKVD chief
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In January 1931, Yudin was co-opted onto the editorial board of
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Yudin was one of three signatories of an article, published in
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in 1924, after which he began a post graduate course at the
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Soviet Culture and Power, A History in Documents, 1917-1953
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19th Presidium of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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for allegedly failing to recognise that the philosopher
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In April 1932, Yudin signed one of the first attacks on
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Tito Speaks, His Self Portrait and Struggle with Stalin
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Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (b)
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Mao Zedong
Nikolai Bulganin
Russian
O.S.
Soviet philosopher
Communist Party
Russian
Russian Communist Party (b)
Red Army
Leningrad
Institute of Red Professors
Joseph Stalin
Right Opposition
Nikolai Bukharin
Pravda
Abram Deborin
Georgi Plekhanov
M. B. Mitin
Vladimir Lenin
Under the Banner of Marxism
Menshevik
Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (b)
RAPP
Leopold Averbakh
Union of Soviet Writers
Maxim Gorky
Great Purge
Josip Broz Tito
NKVD

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