On Literature, Art, and PhilosophyIn this selection of Andrei Zhdanov's works on literature, music and philosophy, he subjects the leadership of each of these aspects of Soviet culture to deep and through going criticisms. The situation came about that the Central Committee of the CPSU(b), in 1947 48, had to intervene in putting an end to the bourgeois trends in Soviet culture. In literature, he rejects the anti socialist abstractive and fatalistic writing that demeaned the people of