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Andreyev - Russian Author and Figure

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Leonid Nikolayevitch Andreyev was born on the twenty-first of August 1871. He died at the age of forty-eight on the twenty-fifth of September 1919. Andreyev is a well-known Russian Author. He is known for his fabulous works relating to the oppression of the Russian Jews. The time period during which Andreyev wrote was the time period portrayed in the Fiddler on the Roof. The time frame written about is during a time when the oppression of the Jews was near its worst. From the beginning of the Czarist reign there had been a ring of anti-Semitism. The Russian Jews did not fit in the way the Czars felt they should. The czars believed that everyone in the Russian State should be the same - culturally and religiously. The church of Russia - was an Eastern Orthodox Church and thus anyone who did not agree with that was considered a heretic not a person with differing views. The czars had a problem. Due to their beliefs, and the size of the Jewish population they felt they were a threat. The Jews were considered a threat to the Medieval and feudal system as well as to their "Cultural" lifestyles. In 1804 Alexander the First started the process for a long line of Czars to distribute harsh laws in the years to follow. It started out simple - and grew into something much bigger, but it did not necessarily work. How effective the Czars treatment to the Jews was - is relative to opinion.

Andreyev - wrote about the policies, the oppression, and the ways of the Jewish people. Each class within the Russian tier of society has a Great Russian literary figure to help portray and convince people to change. To help relay history as it truly occurred for the generations to follow. From the beginning of the Golden Age of Russian Literature - each literary figure has contributed something that has been written to create a better society. The government had a difficult time dealing with the great business minds among the Jews - they played an important and vital roll in the communities. Andreyev wrote in such a way that Maxim Gorky backed him. Andreyev's writings remained popular until the Bolshevik Revolution. After which time he separated himself from Maxim Gorky and would later immigrate to Finland. Many Russian writers dealt with persecuted groups and how they lived - and thus helped bring about change. Had there never been a world war - what impact would Andreyev's writings have had? The answer will remain unknown, but part of that question can be. The fact that there world war or not - the Jews in Russia were being written about. The Jewish Minority had received recognition by this writer, by the simple fact that they were his subject materials. Andreyev began writing short stories and the first one appeared in 1901. The short story sold many copies, consequently making his name a byword and his novels bestsellers.

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