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Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century
Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century
Product Details:
| Category: | Books |
|---|---|
| ISBN: | 0300222785 |
| Title: | Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century The Cheap Fast Free Post |
| Author: | Popoff, Alexandra |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
| Year Published: | 2019 |
| Number of Pages: | 424 |
| Book Binding: | Hardback |
| Prizes: | |
| Book Condition: | VERYGOOD |
| SKU: | GOR009776179 |
Item description
The definitive biography of Soviet Jewish dissident writer Vasily Grossman, calledgripping" and "fascinating" by William Taubman in theNew York Times
[Popoff] tells Grossmans 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.Douglas Smith, Wall Street Journal
Longlisted for the 2019 Cundill History Prize sponsored by McGill University; finalist in the 2019 National Jewish Book Awards, Biography category; winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award, Biography category
If Vasily Grossmans 1961 masterpiece, Life and Fate, had been published during his lifetime, it would have reached the world together with Pasternaks Doctor Zhivago and before Solzhenitsyns 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 (19051964) was among the first to describe the Holocaust and the Ukrainian famine. His 1944 article The Hell of Treblinka became evidence at Nuremberg. Grossmans powerful antitotalitarian works liken the Nazis crimes against humanity with those of Stalin. His compassionate prose has the everlasting quality of great art. Because Grossmans major works appeared after much delay we are only now able to examine them properly. Alexandra Popoffs authoritative biography illuminates Grossmans life and legacy.
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