Word: leonov
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Acclaimed by that old literary war horse Maxim Gorky as a worthy successor to Turgenev, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, Author Leonov has at least the distinction of writing a contemporary Russian novel practically propaganda-less. To the benefits of Soviet industrialization he does not point so much as to its all-too-human obstacles and overwhelming material work. Yet it is still clear that in Russia one must swim with the Soviet river, or be left to rot along its banks...
...Author, Born in Moscow in 1899 Author Leonov comes of peasant stock living in the rural, backwoods province of Kaluga. His father was a self-taught poet, later a journalist, exiled to Archangel under the Tsar. Leonid graduated from the Third Moscow Gymnasium in 1918, was refused admission to Moscow University in 1922 after demobilization from the Red Army. He then moved to Archangel to be near his father. His first writings were in verse; his first novel, Barsuki (The Badgers) was published in 1925. Other books: Rasskazy (Tales), Golubye Pesky (Blue Sand), Vor (The Thief), Sot (Fodder). In Soviet...