Alexander Stein
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| Born |
Александр Петрович Рубинштейн 28 September 1906 Samarkand, Russian Empire |
| Died | 5 October 1993 (aged 87) Moscow, Russian Federation |
| Occupation | Playwright, scriptwriter, memoirist, journalist |
| Years active | 1920-1980s |
| Spouse(s) | Lyudmila Putiyevskaya (1912–94), |
| Awards |
Order of the Patriotic War Order of the Red Star Order of the Red Banner of Labour |
Alexander Petrovich Stein (Александр Петрович Штейн, born Rubinstein, 28 September 1906 – 5 October 1993) was a Soviet Russian writer, playwright, scriptwriter and memoirist. Alexander Stein was a recipient of several high profile state awards, including the Order of the Patriotic War, the Order of the Red Star and the Order of the Red Banner of Labour (twice), as well as two Stalin Prizes (1949, 1951).
Alexander Petrovich Rubinstein was born in Samarkand, Russian Empire (now Uzbekistan) to a middle-class Jewish family. In the early 1920s, as a member of the Samarkand Special Purpose Forces battalion, he took part in fighting the White Army, for the establishment of the Soviet power in the Central Asia. In Bukhara, he started contributing to a local military paper, then wrote for the newspapers Pravda Vostoka (1920–23) and (after a one-year stint at Petrograd University) Leningradskaya Pravda (1924–29). In 1930-1939 Stein (now a Soviet Communist Party member) edited Rabochy i Teatr (Worker and Theatre) magazine.
In 1929 Alexander Stein published his debut play Oil, co-authored by the Tur brothers. It was followed by Utopia (1930) and The Talent (1936). In 1934 he became the member of the Soviet Union of Writers.
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