Boris Gorbatov
Boris Gorbatov (1908–1954) was a Soviet novelist. Boris Gorbatov was born in the Donbas region in Ukraine, he moved to Moscow at the age of 18 and joined the Communist Party in 1930. He was a military correspondent during World War Two.
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Boris Gorbatov
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- Born
- 2 July 1908
- Died
- 2 January 1954
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Boris Gorbatov (1908–1954) was a Soviet novelist. Boris Gorbatov was born in the Donbas region in Ukraine, he moved to Moscow at the age of 18 and joined the Communist Party in 1930. He was a military correspondent during World War Two.
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• Born — 2 July 1908 • Died — 2 January 1954
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He was married to the actress Tatiana Okunevskaya and then the actress Nina Arkhipova. He died in 1954 and is buried in Novodevichy Cemetery.
Могила писателя Бориса Горбатова на Новодевичьем кладбище Москвы.
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1988 Soviet postal cover featuring Boris Gorbatov
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Gorbatov is best known for his novels Donbass and Taras' Family, both of which were translated into English, the latter also into French and German. The latter novel was filmed in 1945 (see The Unvanquished) and was the first film depicting The Holocaust.
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He was a recipient of the Stalin Prize.
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- 1.Shimon Redlich. War, the Holocaust and Stalinism. Routledge. 468. 2013. 9781134367108.
- 2.Les indomptés. Hier et d'aujourd'hui. 1945.
- 3.Roman traduit par A. Roudnikov et publié sous le titre Les insoumis aux éditions Tribord, Bruxelles-Paris-Ostende, 1945.
- 4.Olga Gershenson. The Phantom Holocaust. Rutgers University Press. 41. 2013. 978-0-8135-6182-0.
- 5.Herbert A. Strauss. Current Research on Anti-Semitism: Hostages of Modernization. Walter de Gruyter. 2-3. 1355. 1993. 9783110137156.
- 6.Jeremy Hicks. First Films of the Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and the Genocide of the Jews. University of Pittsburgh Press. 136. 2012. 9780822978084.
- 7.Des bahts municipaux Boris Léontiévitch. ikobrin.ru.
- 8.Marina Frolova-Walker. Stalin's Music Prize. Yale University Press. 155. 2016. 978-0-300-20884-9.
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