Background
FADEYEV, Aleksandr was born on December 24, 1901 in Kimry, Tver’Provincc.
FADEYEV, Aleksandr was born on December 24, 1901 in Kimry, Tver’Provincc.
Studied at Vladivostok Business College. 1921-1922 at Moscow Mining Institute.
Until 1918 lived in village Chuguyevka, South Ussuri Kray. 1918 left school in 8th grade to undertake underground revol work. 1919-1921 with partisans, then in Red Army.
April 1920 seriously wounded near Spassk. Delegation, 10th Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Congress. March 1921 helped crush Kronstadt Mutiny.
Seriously wounded for the second time. 1923-1926 Party and newspaper work in Moscow and Northern Caucasus. 1923 first work published.
From 1926 active in founding Soviet lit associations. Helped direct Russian, then AllUnion Proletarian Writers’ Association and, after its liquidation in 1933, the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Writers’ Union. Board and Presidium member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Writers’ Union.
His works deal with October Revol, Civil War, Stalin’s five-year plans and partisan and underground activities in World War 2. 1933 together with Dovzhenko worked on a film script on Soviet Far East. Together with M. South. Narokov wrote stage adaptation of his novel Razgrom (Rout), which continues to be staged in Soviet theaters.
The novel Molodaya gvardiya (The Young Guard) has also been dramatized and staged. The novel "Young Guard" has also provided the basis for an opera, a symphony and the ballet Lyubka, et cetera Wrote articles on dramaturgy and stagecraft.
At 18th and 19th All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Congresses elected member and at 20th candidate member Central Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Elected deputy, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Supreme Soviet of 2nd, 3rd and 4th convocations. Deputy, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Supreme Soviet of 3rd convocation.
Headed Soviet delcg at various International peace Congresses. 1948 in Wroclaw, 1949 in Paris, 1949 in New York, 1950 in Warsaw, et cetera Bureau member, World Peace Council and Presidium member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Committee for the Defense of Peace.
Communist Party member from 1918.