Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev was a Soviet writer and one of the co-founders of the Union of Soviet Writers, of which he was chairman from 1946 to 1954. Born in 1901 and dying in 1956, he wrote the novel The Young Guard, about a young resistance organization during the Second World War. He joined the Bolshevik Party in 1918 and took part in the guerrilla movement against the Japanese interventionists and the White Army during the Russian Civil War, and in 1927 he published the novel The Rout, about young guerrilla fighters. He was born in Kimry, in the Tver Governorate.
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was a Soviet writer, one of the co-founders of the Union of Soviet Writers and its chairman from 1946 to 1954
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Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Фаде́ев; 24 December [O.S. 11 December] 1901
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13 May 1956) was a Soviet writer, one of the co-founders of the Union of Soviet Writers and its chairman from 1946 to 1954.
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In 1927, he published the novel The Rout (also known as The Nineteen), in which he described youthful guerrilla fighters.
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The Young Guard (Russian: Молодая гвардия) is a 1946 Russian-language young adult historical novel (rewritten in 1951) by Soviet writer Alexander Fadeyev
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