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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808996603321

Autore

Popoff Alexandra

Titolo

Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century / / Alexandra Popoff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

978-0-300-24530-1

0-300-24530-0

0-300-22278-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 395 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, photographs

Classificazione

KK 4534

Disciplina

891.7342

Soggetti

Authors, Russian - 20th century

Jewish authors - Soviet Union

Dissenters - Soviet Union

Biography

Biographies.

Soviet Union

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-378) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



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.