Dmitri Ivanovich Chesnokov

Dmitri Chesnokov ( Russian Дмитрий Иванович Чесноков ; born October 12, ^jul. / 25. October  1910 ^greg. In Kursk , Russian Empire ; † 17th September 1973 in Moscow ) was a Soviet politician and functionary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU ), who, among other things, was a member of the CPSU Politburo from October 1952 to March 1953 for a short time on the party's top management body and between 1957 and 1959 was chairman of the State Committee for Television and Radio of the USSR.

Life

After attending school, Tschesnokow graduated from the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute and then between 1931 and 1943 was initially a lecturer and later head of the Pedagogical Chair at the Sverdlovsk State University . Thereafter, Chesnokov, who had become a member of the CPSU in 1939, first became head of department in the CPSU city committee in 1943 and then in 1946 secretary of the CPSU city committee of Sverdlovsk .

In November 1947, Tschesnokow switched to the central party leadership, where he was first deputy head of the department for science in the administration for agitation and propaganda of the Central Committee (ZK) of the CPSU and then between July 1948 and 1951 deputy director of the Institute for Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences the USSR was. At the same time he acted from March 3, 1949 to July 1952 as editor-in-chief of the journal Woprossy Filosofii (Вопросы философии), which dealt with problems of philosophy .

In July 1952, Tschesnokow, who received his doctorate in philosophy in 1951 , became head of the department for philosophy, law and higher educational institutions of the Central Committee of the CPSU and held this position until March 25, 1953. On October 14, 1952, he was elected member of the Central Committee of the CPDSU and two days later on October 16, 1952 a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee . Another two days later, on October 18, 1953, he became a member of the Standing Committee on Ideological Questions in the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU.

Tschesnokow, who was also editor-in-chief of the newspaper Kommunist ( Коммунист ) between October 1952 and March 1953 , was ousted after the death of Josef Stalin and initially lost his seat in the Presidium of the Central Committee on March 6, 1953 and two weeks later on March 21, 1953 also membership in its standing committee on ideological issues.

In the following period he was from April 1953 to 1955 head of the science department of the CPSU in the Gorki Oblast and also a teacher at the Pedagogical Institute of Gorki . Subsequently, Chesnokov, who on February 14, 1956 also lost his membership in the Central Committee of the CPSU, acted between 1955 and 1957 as secretary of the regional committee of the CPSU in the Gorky Oblast.

On May 27, 1957, Chesnokov was the first chairman of the State Committee for Television and Radio of the USSR and held this post until he was replaced by Sergei Vasilyevich Kaftanow . He then became head of the Department of Dialectical and Historical Materialism at Moscow State University and worked there until he retired in 1970. At the same time he was also Vice-Rector of the Academy for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the CPSU between 1968 and 1970 and on January 30, 1968 became a member of the Department for Theory and History of Education at the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR.

For his many years of service, Chesnokov was awarded the Order of Lenin twice , the Order of the October Revolution and three times the Order of the Red Banner of Labor .

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