Vasily Grossman
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Vasily Semyonovich Grossman was a Soviet writer and journalist. Born to a Jewish family in Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire, Grossman trained as a chemical engineer at Moscow State University,
Photo of Grossman published in Ogonyok (1941)
Grossman with the Red Army in Schwerin, Germany, 1945
Memorial plaque in Donetsk where Grossman worked in the early 1930s.
Life and Fate
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Life and Fate is a novel by Vasily Grossman. Written in the Soviet Union in 1959, it narrates the story of the family of a Soviet physicist, Viktor Shtrum, during the Great Patriotic War, which is dep
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…There is some dispute over the extent of the state repression Grossman endured after the war. While he was never arrested, his two major literary works (Life and Fate and Everything Flows) were censored by Nikita Khrushchev's government as anti-Soviet. At the time of Grossman's death from kidney cancer in 1964, these…
Life and fate