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UNINA9910808996603321 |
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Autore |
Popoff Alexandra |
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Titolo |
Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century / / Alexandra Popoff |
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New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2019] |
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©2019 |
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ISBN |
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978-0-300-24530-1 |
0-300-24530-0 |
0-300-22278-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xi, 395 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, photographs |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Authors, Russian - 20th century |
Jewish authors - Soviet Union |
Dissenters - Soviet Union |
Biography |
Biographies. |
Soviet Union |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-378) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- 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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The definitive biography of Soviet Jewish dissident writer Vasily Grossman 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 |
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