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100			_aPopoff, Alexandra
245			_aVasily Grossman and the Soviet century
260			_bYale University Press, _c2019 _aNew Haven :
300			_axi, 395 p. ; _b15 unnumbered pages of plates, ill., portraits, _c24 cm
365			_b27.00 _c$ _d90.60
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aIf 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.
650			_aJewish Anti-Fascist Committee
650			_aMoscow
650			_aHolocaust
650			_aUkrainian famine
650			_aAnti-totalitarian work
650			_aNazi
650			_aStalin
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