Georgy Aleksandrov
| Georgy Aleksandrov | |
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| Minister of Culture | |
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In office 9 March 1954 – 10 March 1955 |
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| Premier |
Georgy Malenkov Nikolai Bulganin |
| Preceded by | Panteleimon Ponomarenko |
| Succeeded by | Nikolai Mikhailov |
| Head of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Central Committee | |
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In office 6 September 1940 – 1947 |
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| Preceded by | Andrei Zhdanov |
| Succeeded by | Mikhail Suslov |
| Head of the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences | |
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In office 1947–1954 |
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| Preceded by | Grigory Vasetskii |
| Succeeded by | Pyotr Fedoseyev |
| Member of the 18th Orgburo | |
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In office 18 March 1946 – 16 October 1952 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 4 April 1908 St. Petersburg, Russian Empire |
| Died | 21 July 1961 (aged 53) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Georgy Fedorovich Aleksandrov (22 March 1908 (Old Style) - 7 July 1961) was a Marxist philosopher and a Soviet politician.
Aleksandrov was born in Saint Petersburg in a worker's family of Russian ethnicity, but became homeless during the Russian Civil War. In 1924-1930, he studied Communist philosophy in Borisoglebsk and Tambov and then transferred to the Moscow Institute of History and Philosophy. He became a member of the Communist Party in 1928. After graduating in 1932, Aleksandrov remained with the Institute for graduate studies, eventually becoming a professor, a deputy director and the Institute's Scientific Secretary.
In 1938, at the height of the Great Purge, Aleksandrov was made deputy head of the Publishing Department of the Executive Committee of the Comintern. In 1939 he was appointed deputy head of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee's Propaganda and Agitation Department and at the same time put in charge of the Central Committee's Moscow-based Higher Party School, which he headed until 1946.
In September 1940 Aleksandrov was made head of the Central Committee's Propaganda and Agitation Department, replacing Andrei Zhdanov who, as a Secretary of the Central Committee, retained overall supervision over Communist propaganda in the USSR. In 1941 Aleksandrov was also made a candidate (non-voting) member of the Central Committee and, on 19 March 1946, a member of its Orgburo. In 1946 he was also elected a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
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