Summary Dudintsev V. D


Vladimir Dmitrievich Dudintsev (1918-1998) – Russian Soviet writer.
Born July 16 (29), 1918 in the city of Kupyansk Kharkiv region. Dudintsev’s father, Semyon Nikolayevich Baikov, captain of the Tsarist army, died during the Civil War (shot in Kharkov in red), and Vladimir brought up his stepfather, Dmitry Ivanovich Dudintsev, a land surveyor by profession. Mother Claudia Vladimirovna Zhikhareva was an actress of an operetta. In 1940, Vladimir graduated from the Moscow Law Institute and was drafted into the army. He was a participant of the Great Patriotic War, first an artillery officer, and then commander of an infantry company. He received 4 injuries in battles near Leningrad, the last one – heavy, on New Year’s night on December 31, 1941. After the hospital he served in the military prosecutor’s office in Siberia until his demobilization in 1945. After the war he returned to Moscow and worked as a correspondent in the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda

( 1946-1951).
In 1952 he published a collection of short stories “The seven heroes”, in 1953 – the story “In Its Place”. In 1956 he published the novel “Not by bread alone” (based on the novel the film was shot), which caused great resonance and discussion. This is a novel about the inventor, who, in Stalin’s time, is struggling in vain with the domination of the authorities and with the ordinary bureaucracy, while they do not straighten themselves out by resorting to slander. “This novel stands out not as artistic merits, but as an open image of the gap that existed in the USSR between an isolated ruling stratum and the people” (Wolfgang Kazak).
After the release of The New Year’s Tale (1960) and the collections of The Tales and Stories (1959) and The Stories (1963), in connection with the completion of the so-called. “Khrushchev’s Thaw”
In 1987, the novel “White Clothes”, written 20 years before and dedicated to the period of struggle against Lysenkoism in biology and around it, was published. The novel was awarded the USSR State Prize (1988).
Died in Moscow on July 22, 1998.


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Summary Dudintsev V. D