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Bookmark or Share- Life and Fate - WikipediaVasily Grossman, a Ukrainian Jew, was rejected for military service in 1941 and became a correspondent for the Soviet military paper Krasnaya Zvezda. He spent approximately 1,000 days on the front lines, roughly three of the four years of the conflict between the Germans and Soviets. [3]
- Vasily Grossman - New World EncyclopediaVasily Semyonovich Grossman (first name alternatively spelled as Vassily or Vasiliy, Russian: Василий Семёнович Гроссман) (December 12, 1905 – September 14, 1964), was a prominent Soviet-era writer and journalist.
- Vasily Grossman’s Path to Dissent - The New YorkerA beloved Soviet writer’s path to dissent. In the terrible winter of 1938, just before the last of the Moscow show trials, the Soviet secret police arrested a woman named Olga Guber for having...
- Vasily Grossman (Author of Life and Fate) - GoodreadsYoung Vasily Grossman idealistically supported the Russian Revolution of 1917. When the Great Patriotic War broke out in 1941, Grossman's mother was trapped in Berdychiv by the invading German army, and eventually murdered together with 20,000 to 30,000 other Jews who did not evacuate Berdychiv.
- Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate - Yale University PressVasily Grossman began Life and Fate, a powerful anti-totalitarian novel, when Stalin was still alive. Back then he had no prospect of publication. But after the dictator’s death, when the regime admitted half truths about Stalin’s crimes, there was a glimmer of hope.
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