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Fadeyev was born in Kimry, Tver Oblast. From 1908 to 1912 he lived in Chuguyevka, Primorsky Krai. He took part in the guerrilla movement against the Japanese interventionists and the White Army during the Russian Civil War. In 1927, he published the novel The Rout (also known as The Nineteen), in which he described youthful guerrilla fighters.
In 1945, he wrote the novel, The Young Guard (based upon real events of World War II) about the underground anti-fascist Komsomol organization named Young Guard, which fought against the Nazis in the occupied city Krasnodon (in the Ukrainian SSR). For this novel, Fadeyev was awarded the Stalin Prize (1946). In 1948, a Soviet film The Young Guard, based on the book, was released, and later revised in 1964 to correct inaccuracies in the book.
Fadeyev was a champion of Joseph Stalin, proclaiming him "the greatest humanist the world has ever known". During the 1940s, he actively promoted Zhdanovshchina, a campaign of criticism and persecution against many of the Soviet Union's foremost composers. However, he was a friend of Mikhail Sholokhov. Fadeyev married a famous stage actress, Angelina Stepanova (1905–2000).
In the last years of his life Fadeyev became an alcoholic. Some sources claim, that this was mostly due to the denunciation of Stalinism during the Khrushchev Thaw. He eventually committed suicide at his dacha in Peredelkino, leaving a dying letter, from which one can see Fadeyev's strictly negative attitude to new leaders of the Party. His death occasioned an epigram by Boris Pasternak, his neighbor.
Alexander Fadeyev is buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.
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Soviet medal for military literature named after Fadeyev.
Soviet stamp featuring Fadeyev.
Collected Edition
Sobranie sochinenii, 7 vols. Moscow, 1969-71.
Fiction
Protiv techeniia [ Against the Current]. Moscow, 1924; as Amgun'skii polk [ The Amgun'sk Regiment], Moscow, 1934; and as Rozhdenie Amgun'skogo polka [ The Birth of the Amgun'sk Regiment], Moscow, 1934.
Razliv [ The Flood]. Moscow, 1924.
Razgrom. Moscow, 1927; as Razgrom/The Rout, edited by Roger Cockrell, London, Bristol Classical Press, 1995; translated as The Nineteen, by R. D. Charques, London, Martin Lawrence, 1929; reprinted Westport, Connecticut, Hyperion Press, 1973; also translated as The Rout, by O. Gorchakov , Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House, c. 1957.
Poslednii iz Udege [ The Last of the Udege]. Moscow, 1941.
Molodaia gvardiia. Moscow, 1946; translated as The Young Guard, by Violet Dutt, Moscow, Progress, 1958; reprinted Moscow, Raduga, 1987.
Chernaia metallurgiia [ Ferrous Metallurgy]. Moscow, 1951-56.
Memoirs, Letters, and Literary Criticism
Leningrad v dni blokady: Iz dnevnika. Moscow, 1944; translated as Leningrad in the Days of the Blockade, by R. D. Charques , London, Hutchinson, 1946; Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1971.
Za tridtsat' let: Izbrannye stat'i, rechi i pis'ma o literature i iskusstve [ Over Thirty Years: Selected Articles, Speeches and Letters on Literature and Art], edited by S. Preobrazhenskii, 2nd edition, Moscow, 1959.
Pis'ma 1917-1956 [Letters]. 2nd edition, Moscow, 1959.
Critical Studies
Russian Literature since the Revolution, by Edward J. Brown, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1963; znd edition, 1982, 134 -40.
Russian Literature under Lenin and Stalin, 1917-1953, by Gleb Struve , Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1971, 134-37.
Aleksandr Fadeev, by V. Ozerov, 4th edition, Moscow, 1976.
Russian Literature and Ideology: Herzen, Dostoevsky, Leontiev, Tolstoy, Fadeyev, by Nicholas Rzhevsky, Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1983, 133-48.
Aleksandr Fadeev: Pisatel'skaia sud'ba, by V. Boborykin, Moscow, 1989.
"Introduction", by Roger Cockrell, in Razgrom/ The Rout, London, Bristol Classical Press, 1995, v-xviii.
Bibliographies
A. A. Fadeev: Seminarii, by N. I. Nikulina, Leningrad, 1958.
"Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Fadeev", in Russkie sovetskie pisateli prozaiki: Biobibliograficheskii ukazatel', vol. 5, Moscow, 1968, 245-321.
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Fadeev, Soviet novelist, literary theorist, and admininstrator, was a communist by upbringing and persuasion. His parents (a schoolteacher and a nurse) and his