Ministry of higher and secondary specialized education of the republic of uzbekistan state university of world languages english language faculty №1 Course paper theme: james aldridge-his life and work group: Written by: Supervisor

The lifetime of James Aldridge

One of the most progressive English writer James Aldridge is familiar to the Soviet reader not only as the author of talented works of art, but also as an active fighter for the cause of peace and security of peoples.
The name of this talented English writer, an active publicist and a tireless fighter against fascism and imperialism, a herald of peace and progress, is known to all people of good will who have joined forces today in the fight against the instigators of a new war. Especially it is very popular and respected in European countries. Soviet people know Aldridge well, love his talented works of art and passionate, journalistic speeches denouncing the enemies of peace and progress. His numerous publications in the press are a true chronicle of the present, in which the most important events of our turbulent era are deeply and comprehensively analyzed from the class perspective and the combat experience of the literary skill of a born publicist is concentrated.
Aldridge continues and develops the best traditions of revolutionary writers and publicists, diehard fighters for peace and progress, such as Romain Rolland, Henri Barbus, Julius Fucik and others. He shows vivid examples of offensive journalism. The experience of Aldridge is important for Soviet journalists, as well as of great international importance both for progressive foreign publicists and for the widest masses of mankind⁴
Aldridge's journalistic materials play an important educational role, they reveal the heroic pages of history, show an example of an uncompromising struggle against bourgeois ideology, and this contributes to the class tempering of workers, their education in the spirit of patriotism and proletarian internationalism, the formation of their high political vigilance, and irreconcilability to imperialism, conviction in the correctness and invincibility of socialism.
James Aldridge entered the English literature in the early 40s in a relatively short time; he has undergone significant creative evolution. The birth of Aldridge as a writer, his ideological growth is closely related to the liberation struggle of the peoples during the Second World War. Most of Aldridge's works are extremely relevant; at the same time, his journalistic acuity is combined with the gift of artistic generalizations. The focus of the writer is a man with his quest for freedom and happiness. Aldridge's satirical conviction is directed against those who, he said, are trying to "build their calculations on profitable trades with dead souls."James Aldridge was born in Australia in 1918, in Swan Hill (Victoria), in the family of an English writer who settled here shortly before his birth. Already a fourteen-year-old boy, he was sent as a messenger to the editorial office of one of the Melbourne newspapers, while continuing to study. He lived on the Isle of Man (near Scotland) in his mother's old house. After moving to England, Aldridge went to university at Oxford; then he attended flight courses and actively collaborated in a number of London newspapers. During the years of the liberation struggle of the Spanish people, young Aldridge followed with great sympathy all the ups and downs of historical battles with fascism in Spain, where many prominent representatives of the English intelligentsia fought. The events of those days played a big role in the ideological formation of Aldridge, an anti-fascist. Aldridge was 21 years old when he went to Finland as a war correspondent. The keen journalist correctly appreciated the events unfolding before his eyes. In the messages of the discerning correspondent, the condemnation of the disastrous anti-national policies of the Finnish ruling circles of that time and the recognition of the historical correctness of the Soviet Union slipped through. For this he was sent outside of Finland.During the Second World War, Aldridge traveled as a correspondent in many countries (Norway, Greece, Egypt, Libya, Iran, etc.) and in many theaters of war. He also visited the Soviet Union, where he spent almost a year (1944-1945). The writer was an eyewitness to the selfless struggle of the Soviet people, who gave everything to victory and played a decisive role in the defeat of the “Nazi war machine”.
Creatively, James Aldridge matured during the Second World War. Its formation as a progressive writer took place under the influence of the gigantic struggle waged by the Soviet Union and the peoples of other countries - members of the anti-Hitler coalition against German fascism and Japanese imperialism.
He was also active in social events. In his speech at a ceremonial meeting in Moscow dedicated to the centenary of the death of V.V. Gogol, in March 1952, James Aldridge praised the power of the striking satire of the great writer and at the same time vividly expressed his ideological and aesthetic views, clearly defined the artist's place in the struggle for happiness and freedom of peoples. Aldridge's speech at the jubilee meeting is evidence of friendly feelings towards the Soviet people; she is full of optimism and faith in the final victory of the cause of peace over the forces of reaction. He stigmatizes the abomination and meanness of the Anglo-American imperialists who view the war as a profitable business, and says that “thousands of other conferences and popular conferences of peace supporters are gathering around the world. They defend our hopes, our future, and where our national peace conferences come into force, the limit will be put to cynicism and violence”.
Aldridge, as an active public figure and a prominent participant in the movement of peoples for peace and international security, takes an active part in the work of the English Peace Committee and participates as the British delegate in the Stockholm session of the Standing Committee of the World Congress of Peace Supporters. After the American imperialists, with the support of their British, French and other allies, unleashed a bloody intervention in Korea, Aldridge declared: “If I had not been a member of the peace movement earlier, I would have joined it now.”
Aldridge highly values the life-giving value of the realistic traditions of both national and world literature. At a meeting with Soviet readers, Aldridge spoke about the enormous contribution of Leo Tolstoy to the development of the artistic thought of mankind, the strength of his genius, and the unfading power of his realism.
Noting the certain achievements of Soviet and progressive foreign literary criticism in the study of the works of Aldridge, it should be noted that the author's combat journalism, devoted to the most important problems of our time, is still not well understood. As a special object of study, this problem has not yet been put forward by either Soviet or foreign scientists.
The subject matter of Aldridge's journalism is unusually broad and multifaceted. In each of his journalistic articles, he simultaneously covers a number of acute issues of our time, addresses the problems of philosophy, science, culture, art, international politics, etc. However, in almost every journalistic speech he raises his voice against imperialist reaction, exposes the extravagant plans of the imperialists to achieve world domination, the outbreak of a new war.
The relevance, political and practical significance of the problem, the lack of elaboration in journalistic science of a number of dignified and political significance of his novels of important issues of Aldridge's creative and social activities determined the main goal of this work, namely, to study and generalize the experience of his journalistic and active public activities in the fight against fascism and imperialism for peace and friendship between peoples.
The writer lived in Cairo for a long time, to which he dedicated the book “Cairo. Biography of the city” (1969). Since the mid-1960s, Aldridge has been writing mainly books for children and adolescents. In 1971, Aldridge became a jury member at the Seventh Moscow International Film Festival.
In 1972 he became a laureate of the International Lenin Prize "For the consolidation of peace between peoples." In the same year he was awarded the Gold Medal of the International Organization of Journalists.
James Aldridge died at his home in London on February 23, 2015, at the age of 96.
Aldridge is a classic representative of 20th century writers. He from those who saw the war, saw people one-sidedly divide the world into black and white, rejecting humanity. The enemy is not a man, life is more valuable than honor. And who could condemn these people sitting on the ashes of their homes?
So Aldridge does not condemn. He does not mean good and evil in his stories. Each story of this author is a story of a broken heart, a heart trampled into dust and dirty snow. Each of his stories is a story about a man clinging not to life, but to humanity and honor. About a very rare person in those years.
You can read the trilogy about the war and not experience the dumb horror and shudder you experience when reading small, pierced by the cold of winter and human hearts, stories of Aldridge. Reading about Christmas and holiday songs trying to drown out the screams of dying prisoners of war, reading about the frozen hands of a young soldier who flinched at the last and the stolen heat.
“I don't know why and who needs it who sent them to death with an unkind hand only so useless, so evil and unnecessary dipped them into Eternal Peace"⁵

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