Word: novgorod
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...gave the world a new word: purge. To succeed Kirov, Stalin picked chubby little Andrei Alexandrovitch Zhdanov, who up to that time had been a fairly inconspicuous Soviet administrator. He had picked up the Order of Lenin for successfully organizing a motorcar industry in the Nizni-Novgorod district. By the time Kirov was shot, Andrei Zhdanov, 38, had become a member of the Party's Central Committee and he had the ear of Stalin. No sooner had Stalin made him Party secretary of Leningrad than he proved his importance by getting shot in the chest by a plotter...