“What is the point of me being physically free when the book I dedicated my life to is arrested... I am not renouncing it... I am requesting freedom for my book.”
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Vasily Grossman
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, earning the nickname Vasya-khimik because of his diligence as a student. Upon graduation, he took a job in Stalino in the Donets Basin. In the 1930s he changed careers and began writing full-time, pu…
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culture · Soviet writer and journalist (1905–1964) · war correspondent · writer · novelist · prose writer · engineer · reporter · also Vasily Grossman, Vasily Semyonovich Grossman, Grossman
Born 29 November 1905 · Died 14 September 1964 · Q313767
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2026· 5 entries
“Maybe it was necessary for military reasons.”
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The National Law Review: WIX INVESTOR ALERT: Bronstein, Gewirtz and Grossman, LLC Announce
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The National Law Review: PRIM INVESTOR ALERT: Bronstein, Gewirtz and Grossman, LLC Announc
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The National Law Review: CALX DEADLINE - FINAL REMINDER: Bronstein, Gewirtz and Grossman
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2022· 1 entry
By NYRB Classics (US edition) and the MacLehose Press (UK edition)
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2006· 1 entry
And widely praised, being described as "World War II's War and Peace
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1989· 2 entries
After further original manuscripts emerged after the first publication
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And was republished in English, in a new translation by Robert Chandler, in 2009
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1988· 1 entry
After the policy of glasnost was initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev
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1980· 2 entries
In Switzerland, thanks to fellow dissidents: the physicist Andrei Sakharov secretly photographed draft pages preserved by Semyon Lipkin, and the writer Vladimir Voinovich smuggled the photographic films abroad
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Before appearing in the Soviet Union in 1988
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1967· 1 entry
Suppressed by the KGB and released only in 1988, is based on this four-page story
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1964· 2 entries
Died 1964-09-14.
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Not knowing whether his greatest work would ever be read by the public
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1948· 1 entry
The Soviet edition of the book was scrapped completely
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1941· 1 entry
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 had not evacuated
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1937· 3 entries
During the Great Purge Boris Guber was arrested, and later Olga was also arrested for failing to denounce her previous husband as an "enemy of the people"
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Was accepted into the privileged Union of Writers
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Only a very brave man would have dared to write a letter like this to the State's chief executioner
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1933· 1 entry
And in the summer of 1935 he began an affair with Olga Mikhailovna Guber, the wife of his friend, the writer Boris Guber
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1912· 1 entry
Moved to Kiev in 1914 where, while living with his father, he attended secondary school and later the Kiev Higher Institute of Soviet Education
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1905· 1 entry
Born 1905-11-29.
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