Dmitri
Furmanov was born in Russia in 1891. During
the Civil War he joined the Red
Army and served as a Bolshevik
commissar. His first novel, Chapayev
(1923) was based on his experiences fighting under General Chapayev.
The book was highly praised by the critics and is considered a major
classic of Soviet literature. Furmanov died in 1926.
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Issac Babel,
Dmitri Furmanov, Moskva (1936)
Chapayev, which sold hundreds of thousands of copies,
didn't fully satisfy Furmanov. He was growing rapidly. Each month
his talent as a writer expanded. Remember what his life was - he never
chose the line of least resistance. Before the Revolution he fought
against the Tsarist regime; after the Revolution he went to the front;
after the front he picked for himself the most dangerous sector -
the sector where the battle over poetry and art was being fought.
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