
Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century
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Narrated by:
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Stefan Rudnicki
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By:
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Alexandra Popoff
About this listen
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 Russian KGB. When it emerged posthumously, decades later, it was recognized as the War and Peace of the 20th 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 the Nuremberg trials. Grossman's powerful anti-totalitarian works liken the Nazis' crimes against humanity with those of Stalin.
We are only now able to examine Grossman's prose, which has the everlasting quality of great art, as well as his life and legacy, which Popoff's authoritative biography illuminates.
©2019 Alexandra Popoff (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.I would have liked to hear more about the internal passport system and Labour conditions. Not just for the ten per cent passing through the penalty system but for the others...ordinary workers
A fine production
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Outstanding
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Biography of a great writer
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Vasily Grossman's indomitable will to bear witness to his time, puts him alongside Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel.
A Humbling Experience
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Bearing this is mind, and having persevered with a bad listening experience (but the authentic russian voice was great) this is a wonderful and illuminating book to prepare for reading Life and Fate and Stalingrad. I would recommend people to complain to Audible or re edit the sound. Or just read it as a book......
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