Research Catalog

Title

Stalingrad / Vasily Grossman ; translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler ; edited by Robert Chandler and Yury Bit-Yunan.

Author

Grossman, Vasiliĭ

Publication

New York, Ny : New York Review Books, [2019]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Chandler, Robert, 1953-
• Bit-Yunan, Yury
• Chandler, Elizabeth, 1947-

Description

xxix, 1,053 pages : maps; 21 cm.

Summary

• "Vassily Grossman (1905 - 1964) has become well-known in the last twenty years - above all for his novel Life and Fate. This has often been described as a Soviet (or anti-Soviet) War and Peace. Most readers, however, do not realize that it is only the second half of a dilogy. The first half, originally titled Stalingrad but published in 1952 under the title For a just cause, has received surprisingly little attention. Scholars and critics seem to have assumed that, since it was first published in Stalin's lifetime, it can only be considered empty propaganda. In reality, there is little difference between the two novels. The chapters in the earlier novel about the Shaposhnikov family are as tender, and sometimes humorous, as in the later novel. The chapters devoted to the long retreats of 1941 and the first half of 1942 are perhaps still more vivid than the battle scenes in the later novel"--
• In April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini meet in Salzburg where they agree on a renewed assault on the Soviet Union. Launched in the summer, the campaign soon picked up speed, as the routed Red Army is driven back to the industrial center of Stalingrad on the banks of the Volga. In the rubble of the bombed-out city, Soviet forces dig in for a last stand. Even as the Germans advance, the Shaposhnikov matriarch, Alexandra Vladimirovna, refuses to leave Stalingrad. Far from the front, her eldest daughter, Ludmila, is unhappily married to the Jewish physicist Viktor Shtrum. Viktor's research may be of crucial military importance, but he is distracted by thoughts of his mother in the Ukraine, lost behind German lines. -- adapted from back cover

Series Statement

New York Review Books classics

Uniform Title

• Za pravoe delo. English
• New York Review Books classics.

Alternative Title

Za pravoe delo.

Subjects

• Soviet Union
• History
• Fiction
• Soviet Union > History > German occupation, 1941-1944 > Fiction
• 1941-1944
• Stalingrad, Battle of, Volgograd, Russia, 1942-1943 > Fiction
• Stalingrad, Battle of (Volgograd, Russia : 1942-1943)
• LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics
• Russia (Federation) > Volgograd
• German Occupation of Soviet Union (1941-1944)
• Historical fiction

Genre/Form

• Fiction.
• History.
• Historical fiction.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Russian.

Call Number

JFD 19-5218

ISBN

• 9781681373270
• 1681373270
• 9781681373287 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018036773

OCLC

1049790190

Author

Grossman, Vasiliĭ, author.

Title

Stalingrad / Vasily Grossman ; translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler ; edited by Robert Chandler and Yury Bit-Yunan.

Publisher

New York, Ny : New York Review Books, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New York Review Books classics

New York Review Books classics.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

Translated from the Russian.

Chronological Term

1941-1944

Added Author

Chandler, Robert, 1953- editor, translator.

Bit-Yunan, Yury, editor.

Chandler, Elizabeth, 1947- translator.

Other Form:

Online version: Grossman, Vasiliĭ. Stalingrad. New York : New York Review Books, [2019] 9781681373287 (DLC) 2018059214

Report No.

(Coutts)043279854

Research Call Number

JFD 19-5218