Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

Ehrenburg is among the most prolific and notable authors of the Soviet Union; he publiIlya Ehrenburgd around one hundred titles. At the same time he disapproved of the Russian and Soviet intellectuals who had explicitly rejected Communism or Stalinism or defected to the West. During the First World War Ehrenburg became a war correspondent for a St.

He became known first and foremost as a novelist and a journalist - in particular as a reporter in three wars (First World War Spanish Civil War and the Second World War). His articles on the Second World War have provoked intense controversies in West Germany especially during the sixties. Ehrenburg's travel writing also had great resonance as did to an arguably greater extent his memoir People Years Life which may be his best known and most discussed work.