Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century
by Alexandra Popoff
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- 9780300255379
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Yale University Press, 2020. Paperback. New. A clean crisp well preserved 2020 Yale University Press softcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The definitive biography of Soviet Jewish dissident writer Vasily Grossman, called "gripping" and "fascinating" by William Taubman in the New York Times "[Popoff] tells Grossman's 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 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.
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- Title
- Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century
- Author
- Alexandra Popoff
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New New
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- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0300255373
- ISBN 13
- 9780300255379
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Date Published
- 2020
- Keywords
- Russia, Soviet Union, Biography, Ukrainian famine, The Hell of Triblinka, Holocaust, KGB, Nuremberg Trials, Russian History,
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