MOLOTOV APPOINTMENT TO PARTY POST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00890A000700100020-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: October 12, 1956
• Content Type: BRIEF

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The,,' appointment of V. M. Molotov as co-ordinator of Soviet. cui?tura
activities clearly marks a resurgence of the "Old Bolshevik" whc
publicly ate crow as recently as 1955 for "misinterpreting" Marxisx',,`
Lenf.nist theory and who "resigned" as Foreign Minister this June,
ii, The assignment of Molotov to a. post from which he presumably would.
supervise the activities of the Central Committee's powerful
Agitation and Propaganda Department (AGITPROP") suggests that a_-
crack-down may be in store for recently "liberalized" Soviet
literature, arts. social sciences, and humanities.
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establishment, of well-defined limits for "the thaw" in Soviet
literature and the arts which has been developing since the
known for his "hard" doctrinaire,approac;h, His new
position indicates that the Soviet regime may be. contemplating
death of Stalin
oiotov was censured by the party central committee in July 1955 for
a;ing the policy of re-establishing relations with frito. At that
m= he appeared to have lost most of his influence in the top
4;xship because of his inilexibil?.ty, and his failure to adapt
to the new policies of the p