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Vasily Grossman and the Soviet century
- Title
- Vasily Grossman and the Soviet century / Alexandra Popoff.
- Author
- Popoff, Alexandra
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- xi, 395 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm
- 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.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Biography.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-378) and index.
- Contents
- In the town of Berdichev -- From science to literature and politics -- Facts of the ground: the Donbass -- Great expectations -- The dread New World -- The inevitable war -- 1941 -- The Battle of Stalingrad -- Arithmetic of brutality -- A Soviet Tolstoy -- Toward Life and Fate -- The novel -- An unrepentant heretic -- Everything Flows -- Keep my words forever.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-6567
- ISBN
- 9780300222784
- 0300222785
- LCCN
- 2018955015
- OCLC
- 1048947607
- Author
- Popoff, Alexandra, author.
- Title
- Vasily Grossman and the Soviet century / Alexandra Popoff.
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-378) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-6567