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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 Russian KGB. When it emerged posthumously, decades later, it was recognized as the War and Peace of the 20th century.Â
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 the Nuremberg trials. Grossman's powerful anti-totalitarian works liken the Nazis' crimes against humanity with those of Stalin.
We are only now able to examine Grossman's prose, which has the everlasting quality of great art, as well as his life and legacy, which Popoff's authoritative biography illuminates.
Read Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century Audible Audio Edition Alexandra Popoff Stefan Rudnicki Inc Blackstone Audio Books
"A book that is as valuable as a warning of current political trends in Russia under Putin as it is a biography of a writer of the last century little known to most Americans (including me).
While the life of Vasily Grossman is definitively set out here, the details of that life are somewhat elusive given the chaos of the times he lived in and the state suppression he was subject to. What is clear is the courage Grossman exhibited in reporting during World War II and his writings on the striking similarities between the dehumanizing actions of the totalitarian states represented by the USSR and Nazi Germany. Jews and kulaks were both targeted: Truth was not valued under either system.
The tortured story of how the Kremlin delayed, edited, and in all other manner of ways made publishing difficult or impossible for this author is alone worth reading.
The paramount dignity of the individual was an idea championed by Vasily Grossman. Of this writer, Alexandra Popoff has written a fine biography."
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Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century Audible Audio Edition Alexandra Popoff Stefan Rudnicki Inc Blackstone Audio Books Reviews
- A book that is as valuable as a warning of current political trends in Russia under Putin as it is a biography of a writer of the last century little known to most Americans (including me).
While the life of Vasily Grossman is definitively set out here, the details of that life are somewhat elusive given the chaos of the times he lived in and the state suppression he was subject to. What is clear is the courage Grossman exhibited in reporting during World War II and his writings on the striking similarities between the dehumanizing actions of the totalitarian states represented by the USSR and Nazi Germany. Jews and kulaks were both targeted Truth was not valued under either system.
The tortured story of how the Kremlin delayed, edited, and in all other manner of ways made publishing difficult or impossible for this author is alone worth reading.
The paramount dignity of the individual was an idea championed by Vasily Grossman. Of this writer, Alexandra Popoff has written a fine biography.
