Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century /

Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Popoff, Alexandra, author.
Imprint:	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
Description:	xi, 395 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Grossman, Vasiliĭ. Grossman, Vasiliĭ Authors, Russian -- 20th century -- Biography. Jewish authors -- Soviet Union -- Biography. Dissenters -- Soviet Union -- Biography. Authors, Russian. Dissenters. Jewish authors. Soviet Union. Biography.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11797782

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ISBN:	0300222785 9780300222784
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-378) and index.
Summary:	If Vasily Grossman's 1961 masterpiece, Life and Fate, had been published during his lifetime, it would have reached the world together with Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago and before Solzhenitsyn's Gulag. But Life and Fate was seized by the KGB. When it emerged posthumously, decades later, it was recognized as the War and Peace of the twentieth century. Always at the epicenter of events, Grossman (1905-1964) was among the first to describe the Holocaust and the Ukrainian famine. His 1944 article "The Hell of Treblinka" became evidence at Nuremberg. Grossman's powerful anti-totalitarian works liken the Nazis' crimes against humanity with those of Stalin. His compassionate prose has the everlasting quality of great art. Because Grossman's major works appeared after much delay we are only now able to examine them properly. Alexandra Popoff's authoritative biography illuminates Grossman's life and legacy.

Table of Contents:

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. In the Town of Berdichev
2. From Science to Literature and Politics
3. Facts on the Ground: The Donbass
4. Great Expectations
5. The Dread New World
6. The Inevitable War
7. 1941
8. The Battle of Stalingrad
9. Arithmetic of Brutality
10. A Soviet Tolstoy
11. Toward Life and Fate
12. The Novel
13. An Unrepentant Heretic
14. Everything Flows
15. Keep My Words Forever
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Illustrations follow page 214