Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeev

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Alexander Fadeev (1952)

Alexander Fadeyev ( Russian Александр Александрович Фадеев ; born December 11 . Jul / 24. December  1901 greg. In Kimry ; † 13. May 1956 in Peredelkino in Moscow by suicide ) was a Soviet writer and publicist .

Fadeev took part in the civil war and in 1927 wrote the novel “The Nineteen” (Разгром) about the fight of partisans and Red Army soldiers against Japanese troops around 1920 in the Far East of Russia, where he himself had spent part of his childhood and youth in the village of Chuguevka .

Fadeev was during the Stalinist era (1938 to 1944 and 1946 to 1954) secretary of the Union of Writers of the USSR . His most famous novel is " The Young Guard " (Молодая гвардия). Fadeev was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1946 and twice the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner .

The "Junge Garde" was published in German in 1945 and 1949. The novel describes the struggle and the fate of a young partisan group during the German occupation in 1942. The hero is the sixteen-year-old Komsomoln Oleg Koschewoi, who leads the uprising against the Wehrmacht in the city of Krasnodon . For about four months he fought with over 100 Komsomol against German soldiers. One month before the city was liberated by the Red Army (January 1943), the group was betrayed. Out of 103 young members, only eight survived. The body of Oleg Koschewois was only found in March 1943, tortured and mutilated. Fadeev's novel from the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union served in communist popular education in the USSR as well as in the Warsaw signatory states as a model novel in military education for school children.

Fadeev was seriously alcoholic . After Stalin's death, he was heavily attacked for his support for Stalin's cultural policy during the thaw . Fadeev chose to commit suicide by firearm in his dacha in Peredelkino. The day before his suicide, Fadeev confessed to a friend that, as a functionary of the Writers' Union, he had consented to many of the arrests of writers - despite his knowledge that these people were innocent. His death was related in an epigram by his neighbor in Peredelkino, Boris Pasternak . Fadeev was buried in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery.

Works

Fiction

  • The nineteen. Willi Weismann Verlag, Munich 1949.
  • Novels - short stories - short stories. Publishing house culture and progress, Berlin 1970.
  • The young guard. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1950.

Journalism

  • About literature. Speeches, essays, letters. Edited by Willi Beitz . Volk und Welt publishing house, Berlin 1973.

Film adaptations

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personal data
SURNAME Fadeev, Alexander Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Фадеев, Александр Александрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Kimry
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1956
Place of death Peredelkino near Moscow