Ivan Kataev
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Ivan Ivanovich Kataev was a Soviet writer.
and the CPSU and participated in the fighting against Anton Denikin. After leaving the military Kataev studied at the Economic Department of Moscow University.
Kataev’s first works were published in 1921. From 1926 to 1932 he was the leader of the literary group Pereval, which included Eduard Bagritsky
, Mikhail Prishvin
and Pyotr Pavlenko
, among others. His works include the novellas The Heart (1928), Milk (1930), and The Encounter (1934) and the collections of essays Movement (1932) and The Man on the Mountain (1934).
He made numerous long trips as a journalist to the Kuban
, Altai Republic
, Kola Peninsula
, Armenia
and many other places, providing him with material for his fiction.
His novel Milk was attacked on ideological grounds as a work that preached religion. His works were attacked throughout the mid 1930s, eventually leading to his arrest and execution as an "enemy of the people" in 1939. He was rehabilitated in 1956.
Biography
Kataev was born in Moscow. In 1919 he joined the Red ArmyRed Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army started out as the Soviet Union's revolutionary communist combat groups during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1922. It grew into the national army of the Soviet Union. By the 1930s the Red Army was among the largest armies in history.The "Red Army" name refers to...
and the CPSU and participated in the fighting against Anton Denikin. After leaving the military Kataev studied at the Economic Department of Moscow University.
Kataev’s first works were published in 1921. From 1926 to 1932 he was the leader of the literary group Pereval, which included Eduard Bagritsky
Eduard Bagritsky
Eduard Bagritsky , real name Dzyubin , was an important Russian and Soviet poet of the Constructivist School.He was a Neo-Romantic early in his poetic career; he was also a part of the so-called Odessa School of Russian writers...
, Mikhail Prishvin
Mikhail Prishvin
Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin was a Russian/Soviet writer.Mikhail Prishvin was born in the family mansion of Krutschevo, near the city of Yelets in what is now Lipetsk Oblast into the family of a merchant. In 1893-1897, he studied at a polytechnic school in Riga and was once arrested for his...
and Pyotr Pavlenko
Pyotr Pavlenko
Pyotr Andreyevich Pavlenko , , was a Soviet writer, screenwriter and war correspondent. He became a member of the CPSU in 1920.-Early life:...
, among others. His works include the novellas The Heart (1928), Milk (1930), and The Encounter (1934) and the collections of essays Movement (1932) and The Man on the Mountain (1934).
He made numerous long trips as a journalist to the Kuban
Kuban
Kuban is a geographic region of Southern Russia surrounding the Kuban River, on the Black Sea between the Don Steppe, Volga Delta and the Caucasus...
, Altai Republic
Altai Republic
Altai Republic is a federal subject of Russia . Its capital is the town of Gorno-Altaysk. The area of the republic is . Population: -Geography:...
, Kola Peninsula
Kola Peninsula
The Kola Peninsula is a peninsula in the far northwest of Russia. Constituting the bulk of the territory of Murmansk Oblast, it lies almost completely to the north of the Arctic Circle and is washed by the Barents Sea in the north and the White Sea in the east and southeast...
, Armenia
Armenia
Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
and many other places, providing him with material for his fiction.
His novel Milk was attacked on ideological grounds as a work that preached religion. His works were attacked throughout the mid 1930s, eventually leading to his arrest and execution as an "enemy of the people" in 1939. He was rehabilitated in 1956.
English translations
- Immortality, from Anthology of Soviet Short Stories, Vol 1, Progress Publishers, 1976.
- The Wife, from Great Soviet Short Stories, Dell, 1990.