Grigory Baklanov Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Grigory Yakovlevich Baklanov (Russian: Григо́рий Я́ковлевич Бакла́нов) (September 11, 1923 – December 23, 2009) was a Russian writer, well known for his novels about World War II, and as the editor of the literary magazine Znamya. Becoming the editor in 1986, during Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms, Baklanov published the works that were previously banned by Soviet censors; his drive for glasnost boosted the magazine’s circulation to 1 million copies.
He joined the Red Army after the Nazi attack on the USSR. He was sent to the front line when he was 18. He was seriously wounded in combat, and received several medals for valor.
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He wrote fiction inspired by his war-time experiences in the Soviet Army. He was awarded the prestigious State Prize of the Soviet Union.
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As the editor of "Znamya" ("The Banner"), a leading literary monthly, he was influential in promoting the glasnost reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev. He published works that had been banned by Communist censors, and helped to expose the crimes of Joseph Stalin.