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Adam Antonovich BABAREKA Edit Profile

Belorussian writer and literary critic

Adam BABAREKA, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Belorussian writer and literary critic.

Background

BABAREKA, Adam was born on October 15, 1899 in village Sloboda-Kuchinka, now Minsk Oblast.

Education

Studied at Minsk Theological Seminary. 1927 graduate Department of Ethnology and Linguistics, Pedagogical Faculty, Belorussian State University.

Career

1919-1921 schoolteacher in Sunaycvo and Sloboda-Kuchinka. Fought with partisans against Poles. Foreign a time member, Puka former small rural district Revol Conn and head, Puka former small rural district Department of Education.

1921-1922 in Red Army. From 1922 lived in Minsk. 1922-1927 ed, newspaper Savetskaya Belarus'.

1923-1926 member, then head, criticism section, Maladnyak (Youth) Literature Association. From 1925 lecturer in Belorussian language and lit, Belorussian Communist University. From 1926 secretary and ideologist, Uzvyslisha (Eminence) Literature Association.

From 1928 assistant professor, Chair of Belorussian Literature History, Belorussian State University. Defended ’’purity” of Belorussian literature Rejected Party attacks on writers M. Bahdanovich, Yanka Kupala, Yakub Kolas and Z. Byadula.

1930 exiled for five years as Belorussian "national-dcmocrat” and ’’nationalist” to Slobodskoy Vyatskoy, now Kirov Oblast. 1935 sentenced to two more years in exile. 1937 re-arrested and interned in concentration camp.

Religion

Religion is bad because it imposes irrational rules of good and bad behaviour.

Views

The role of the individual as a member of a collective is more important than the individual.