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1. lareviewofbooks.org › article › vasily-grossman-myths-andVasily Grossman: Myths and Counter-Myths - Los Angeles Review of...

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   Nov 13, 2019 · It was known that Stalin had personally deleted Stepan Kolchugin from the list of nominated books unanimously confirmed by the committee. Stalin had called it “a Menshevik novel.”

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3. lithub.com › vasily-grossman-and-the-plight-of-soviet-jewishVasily Grossman and the Plight of Soviet Jewish Scientists

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   May 29, 2019 · Both Sergei Kravchenko in the novel Stepan Kolchugin and his adolescent protagonist Kolya in the story “Four Days” are child prodigies who devour volumes on theoretical physics, chemistry, acoustics, mathematics, and the natural sciences.

4. www.nytimes.com › 2019/06/05 › booksThe Soviet Union’s Jewish Tolstoy — Censored in Life, Now Revived

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   Jun 5, 2019 · Meanwhile, however, his novel “Stepan Kolchugin” appeared in installments in 1939-40 and was wildly popular. By the end of a decade marred by collectivization and terror, Grossman, remembered a...

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5. www.encyclopedia.com › religion › encyclopedias-almanacsGrossman, Vasili Semyonovich | Encyclopedia.com

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   Grossman's most important early work is Stepan Kolchugin (1937–40), a three-volume novel describing the Communist underground before the Revolution. He became famous as the author of Narod bessmerten ("The People Is Immortal," 1942), the first important Soviet novel inspired by World War ii.

6. isj.org.uk › grossmans-stalingradGrossman’s Stalingrad • International Socialism

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   • Grossman and Socialist Realism: Which Truth and Why?
   • Grossman at War
   • Grossman, Antisemitism and Bolshevism
   • Grossman in The Post-Stalin Years
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   By 1932, Grossman was back in Moscow after recuperating in a sanitorium in Georgia from a serious illness that had been misdiagnosed as tuberculosis, a common disease in the mines. He had already drafted his first novel, Glückauf, which was refused publication on the grounds of its “counter-revolutionary tendencies”.25Fortunately for Grossman, Maxi...

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   The outbreak of war transformed Grossman. Unable to enlist for health reasons, he nonetheless managed to get appointed as a war correspondent, despite having no obvious physical or military competence for the job. He proved to be a brilliant journalist, demonstrating extraordinary bravery at the front, an ability to master military knowledge, and a...

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   In 1941, Grossman had been shocked when Ehrenburg claimed that the celebrated, regime-approved author Mikhail Sholokov had repeated an antisemitic slur that Jews were making money while others were in the thick of battle: “You are fighting,” Sholokov had told Ehrenburg, who was a Jew, “but Abram is doing business in Tashkent.” Just how widespread t...

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   With the death of the dictator, sections of the bureaucracy began to realise that relying purely on repression was counterproductive. It responded to mass revolt in the gulags with a mass release of prisoners. Nikita Khrushchev’s “secret speech” denouncing Stalin’s crimes at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party in early 1956 was a sign of a “th...

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   This brings us to the role of form—the specific way in which art “cognises reality”, as Voronsky would have put it. If the dilogy (and Life and Fate particularly) is Grossman’s greatest achievement, it cannot simply be because of its social, political and historical content, important though that is. Rather, it is also because of his ability to giv...

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7. www.irishtimes.com › culture › booksVasily Grossman’s Life and Fate: so much more than a 20th-century...

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   Apr 12, 2022 · In the latter period, Grossman made his name through journalism, short stories (notably In the Town of Berdichev, 1934) and a long first novel, Stepan Kolchugin, serialised from the late 1930s...

8. www.themodernnovel.org › europe › europeGrossman: The People Immortal - The Modern Novel

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   The New York Review of Books has now published three of Grossman’s novels (and two other works by him). I am hoping that they may be considering his Степан Кольчугин (Stepan Kolchugin) which was published in English in 1946 in a translation by Rosemary Edmonds as Kolchugin’s Youth but is long out of print.