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Vladimir Dmitrievich Dudincev
Владимир Дудинцев
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29 July 1918 - 22 July 1998
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Dudintsev, Vladimir Dmitrievich (1918-1998), Russian writer. Born 16 (29) July 1918 in Kupyansk, Kharkiv region. Dudintsev’s father, a tsarist officer, was shot with reds. After graduating from the Moscow Law Institute in 1940, he was drafted into the army. After being wounded near Leningrad, he worked in the military prosecutor’s office in Siberia (1942-1945). In 1946-1951 – essayist of “Komsomolskaya Pravda”.
It began printing in 1933. In 1952 he published a collection of stories “At the Seven
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Dudintsev, Vladimir Dmitrievich (1918-1998), Russian writer. Born 16 (29) July 1918 in Kupyansk, Kharkiv region. Dudintsev’s father, a tsarist officer, was shot with reds. After graduating from the Moscow Law Institute in 1940, he was drafted into the army. After being wounded near Leningrad, he worked in the military prosecutor’s office in Siberia (1942-1945). In 1946-1951 – essayist of “Komsomolskaya Pravda”.
It began printing in 1933. In 1952 he published a collection of stories “At the Seven Heroes”, in 1953 – the story “In Its Place”. A stunning success was published in 1956 in the magazine “New World” Dudintsev’s novel “Not with bread alone”, telling about the futile attempts of provincial engineer Lopatkin, an honest and courageous man, to break through with his invention, accelerating and cheapening housing construction in a postwar destroyed country, the wall of indifference of officials, out of selfish and career motives supporting an alternative, obviously worthless project of the capital professor.
The official accused the writer of “slander”, and after the magazine publication of the philosophical and allegorical “New Year’s Tale” (1960) and the publication of the collections “Tales and Stories” (1959) and “Stories” (1963), to the actual ban on the publication of Dudintsev’s works.
Only in 1987, with the beginning of “perestroika”, appeared in the press and immediately became a milestone in the history of modern Russian literature, Dudintsev’s second long-term work – the novel “White Clothes” (State Prize of the USSR, 1988), based on a documentary narrative about the confrontation in Soviet science of the 1940-1950s of true genetic scientists with ignorant conjuncturers – supporters of the “academic agronomist” T.D. Lysenko.
Dudintsev died in Moscow on July 22, 1998.