Alexander Afinogenov

April 4, 1904 (age 37)

Skopin, Russia

He joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1922. He obtained a degree in journalism in 1924, the year that he published his first play. In the 1920s he was a member and later director of the Proletkult"s theatre. He turned away from the Proletkult in the late 1920s, and became in the early 1930s the chief drama theoretician of the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers. He wrote 26 plays, but he is best known for Fear (1931) and Mashenka (1941). His work was attacked in 1936 and he was expelled from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1937, but he was never purged, and was rehabilitated in 1938. He continued writing until his death in a German air raid in 1941. Her first husband was John Bovingdon.

Alexander Afinogenov

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Background

Alexander was born in the town of Skopin, in Ryazan Oblast.

Career

He joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1922. He obtained a degree in journalism in 1924, the year that he published his first play. In the 1920s he was a member and later director of the Proletkult"s theatre.

He turned away from the Proletkult in the late 1920s, and became in the early 1930s the chief drama theoretician of the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers.

He wrote 26 plays, but he is best known for Fear (1931) and Mashenka (1941). His work was attacked in 1936 and he was expelled from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1937, but he was never purged, and was rehabilitated in 1938.

He continued writing until his death in a German air raid in 1941. Her first husband was John Bovingdon.

Achievements

Aleksandr Nikolaevich Afinogenov mixed lyricism, melodrama, and comedy in his portrayals of average Russians in everyday pursuits. His plays were very popular in the Soviet Union.

The most popular, and sensational, of Afinogenov's plays is "Fear".

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