Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century
by Alexandra Popoff
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Paperback / softback. New. <b>The definitive biography of Soviet Jewish dissident writer Vasily Grossman, called âgripping" and "fascinating" by William Taubman in the <i>New York Times</i></b><br />  <br /><b>â[Popoff] tells Grossmanâs story with sensitivity and a keen understanding of his world, drawing on little-known archival collections to produce what must be considered the definitive biography.ââDouglas Smith, <i>Wall Street Journal</i></b><br /><br /><b>Longlisted for the 2019 Cundill History Prize sponsored by McGill University; finalist in the 2019 National Jewish Book Awards, Biography category; w</b><b>inner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award, Biography category</b><br /><br /> If Vasily Grossmanâs 1961 masterpiece, <i>Life and Fate</i>, had been published during his lifetime, it would have reached the world together with Pasternakâs <i>Doctor Zhivago</i> and before Solzhenitsynâs <i>Gulag</i>. But <i>Life and Fate</i> was seized by the KGB. When it emerged posthumously, decades later, it was recognized as the <i>War and Peace</i> of the twentieth century. Always at the epicenter of events, Grossman (1905â1964) was among the first to describe the Holocaust and the Ukrainian famine. His 1944 article âThe Hell of Treblinkaâ became evidence at Nuremberg. Grossmanâs powerful antiâtotalitarian works liken the Nazisâ crimes against humanity with those of Stalin. His compassionate prose has the everlasting quality of great art. Because Grossmanâs major works appeared after much delay we are only now able to examine them properly. Alexandra Popoffâs authoritative biography illuminates Grossmanâs life and legacy.
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