Background
BESPALOV, Ivan was born on June 11, 1900 in village Smolino, now Chelyabinsk Oblast.
BESPALOV, Ivan was born on June 11, 1900 in village Smolino, now Chelyabinsk Oblast.
1926 graduate Institute of Red Professor.
Fought in Civil War; lecturer and deputy director, Institute of Red Professors. Worked for Department of Agitation and Propaganda, Central Committee, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). 1929-1931 deputy ed, journal Pechat' i revolyutsiya.
Editor, journal Krasnaya nov’. Telegraphic Agency of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics for correspondent. One of leaders of ’’Litfront” (Literary Front) group.
From 1934 chief ed, State Literature Publ House. 1937 arrested and imprisoned.
Religion is bad because it imposes irrational rules of good and bad behaviour.
Individuals have rights to express freedom if it safeguarde the interests of a collective.
Communist Party member from 1919.