Tagged: Vasily Grossman

July 22, 2020

Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century by Alexandra Popoff

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...

Older Books / People / Pointers

February 8, 2016

The Soviet Jewish Writer Whose Masterpiece Was Banned for 200 Years

From Jewniverse In 1959, Soviet Jewish writer Vasily Grossman finished his magnum opus, the novel Life and Fate, an account of the Battle of Stalingrad during the Nazi invasion of the USSR and, simply,...