Vasily Grossman (1905–1964)

Author of Life and Fate

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Grossman, a graduate in physics and mathematics from Moscow University, worked first as a chemical engineer and became a published writer during the mid-1930s. His early stories and novel deal with such politically orthodox themes as the struggle against the tsarist regime, the civil war, and the building of the new society. Grossman served as a war correspondent during World War II, publishing a series of sketches and stories about his experiences. Along with Ehrenburg, he edited the suppressed documentary volume on the fate of Soviet Jews, The Black Book. In 1952 the first part of his new novel, For the Good of the Cause, appeared and was sharply criticized for its depiction of the war. The censor rejected another novel, Forever Flowing (1955), which was circulated in samizdat and published in the West. The secret police confiscated a sequel to For the Good of the Cause, the novel Life and Fate, in 1961, but a copy was smuggled abroad and published in 1970. Grossman's books were issued in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and have met with both admiration and, on part of the nationalist right wing, considerable hostility. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Life and Fate… (more)

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Stalingrad

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Works by Vasily Grossman

Life and Fate 3,129 copies, 81 reviews

A Writer at War. Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945 (Author) 970 copies, 21 reviews

Everything Flows 786 copies, 34 reviews

Stalingrad 526 copies, 12 reviews

The Road 372 copies, 14 reviews

An Armenian Sketchbook 218 copies, 5 reviews

The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry 125 copies, 4 reviews

The Treblinka hell: photographic album of martyrs, heroes, and… 55 copies, 3 reviews

The People Immortal 48 copies, 1 review

La cagnetta 12 copies

Brieven aan mijn moeder 10 copies

Oeuvres 8 copies

Eterno reposo y otras narraciones 8 copies

Las buenas compañías 5 copies

Fosforo 5 copies

Bem Hajam! – Apontamentos de Viagem à Arménia 4 copies

Tiergarten, Berlín 1945 (Rústica) 4 copies

Stalingrado: Crónicas desde el frente de batalla (Rústica) 4 copies

Die ||Kommissarin : Erzählung 3 copies, 1 review

La Madonna a Treblinka 3 copies

Grossman-dagbøgerne 1941-1945 : i front mod tyskernes terror i… 2 copies

Life and Fate (BBC Radio Adaptation) 2 copies, 1 review

La route: Nouvelles (French Edition) 2 copies

Mõned kurvad päevad : [jutustused] 2 copies

Que el bien os acompañe (Ensayo) (Spanish Edition) 2 copies

Stalinegrado (Portuguese Edition) 2 copies

Несколько печальных дней Повести и… 2 copies, 1 review

2007 2 copies

Stepan Koltschugin - Band 2 1 copy

Stepan Koltšugin. romaan] / 1. [osa 1 copy

Избранное, 2 тома 1 copy

HER ŞEY GEÇİP GİDER 1 copy

Stepan Koltschugin - Band 1 1 copy

Stepan Koltšugin. romaan] / 3. [osa 1 copy

Kolchugin's Youth 1 copy

Bem Hajam! Apontamentos de Viagem à Arménia (Portuguese Edition) 1 copy

Peur 1 copy

New Writing 2: Fall, 1936 1 copy

Cartas y recuerdos: un libro sobre Vasili Grossman 1 copy

Stepan Koltšugin. romaan] / 2. [osa 1 copy

L'Enfer de Treblinka: traduit du russe 1 copy

Повесть. Рассказы. Очерки 1 copy

Рассказы. Повести (1931-1945) 1 copy

Die Hölle von Treblinka 1 copy

מוטיבים יהודיים 2 1 copy

За правое дело. Жизнь и судьба 6… 1 copy

מוטיבים יהודיים 1 copy

In the Town of Berdichev 1 copy

Stalingrad. September 1942 - Januari 1943 1 copy

Road to victory; twelve tales of the Red army 1 copy

Življenje in usoda 1 copy

Stjepan Koljčugin 1 copy

Zhizn' i sud'ba chast' pervaja (Russian Edition) 1 copy

Vasily Grossman from the Front Line 1 copy

No Beautiful Nights 1 copy

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Also by Vasily Grossman

The Penguin Book of Hell (Contributor) 138 copies, 1 review

Great Soviet Short Stories (Contributor) 75 copies

The Red Thread: 20 Years of NYRB Classics: A Selection (Contributor) 52 copies

Granta 145: Ghosts (Contributor) 45 copies, 2 reviews

Der Irrtum. Russische Erzählungen. (Contributor) 7 copies

De geschiedenis van een manuscript : over Vasili Grossman, Leven en Lot (Author) 2 copies

Moderne russische Erzähler (Author) 2 copies

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Canonical name

Grossman, Vasily

Legal name

Grossman, Vasily Semyonovich

Гроссман, Василий Семёнович

Other names

Date of birth

1905-12-12

Date of death

1964-09-14

Burial location

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Troyekurovskoye Cemetery Moscow, Russia

Gender

male

Nationality

USSR

Russia

Country (for map)

Birthplace

Berdichev, Ukraine, Russian Empire

Place of death

Moscow, Soviet Union

Cause of death

Places of residence

Moscow, Soviet Union

Geneva, Switzerland

Kiev, Ukraine, Soviet Union

Education

Moscow State University

Occupations

Relationships

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Organizations

Red Star (Krasnaya Zvezda)

Unity

Awards and honors

Red Banner of Labor

Short biography

Born in the Ukraine in 1905, Vasilly Grossman published his first novel 'Stepan Gluchkauf 'in 1933. Grossman was Jewish and his place of birth was one of the largest Jewish communities in Eastern Europe. Grossman is most notable for his work as a journalist during WWII and his eyewitness accounts of the fall of Stalingrad, the fall of Berlin and the Holocaust. He published the first account of a German death camp written by a journalist. He went on to publish a novel about Stalingrad in 1952 called "For a Just Cause" and in 1960 "Life and Fate".

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