Krasnov-Asli, Vasiliiivanovich

Born Jan. 6 (18), 1900, in the village of Churanovo, in present-day Buin Raion, Tatar ASSR. Soviet Chuvash writer. Member of the CPSU since 1917.

The son of poor peasants, Krasnov-Asli took part in the Civil War of 1918–20. He graduated from the la. M. Sverdlov Communist University in 1929 and from the Institute of the Red Professorial in 1936. His novellas The Fight Against the Whites (1929), Giants (1929–34), and Roots (1932–36) make up the autobiographical trilogy In the Fire (books 1–3, 1957–61). He wrote the novels Uphill (book 1, 1929; rev. ed. 1959; book 2: The Sun Is the Same for All, 1964) and My School (1963). The main themes in Krasnov-Asli’s work are the Revolution, the Civil War, and the collectivization of agriculture. He was awarded the Order of Lenin and a number of medals.