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Vasily Grossman and the Soviet century / Alexandra Popoff.

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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,...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Popoff, Alexandra (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Grossman, Vasiliĭ
Authors, Russian > 20th century > Biography.
Jewish authors > Soviet Union > Biography.
Dissenters > Soviet Union > Biography.
Authors, Russian.
Dissenters.
Jewish authors.
Soviet Union.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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