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The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewryis a collection of
eyewitness testimonies, letters, diaries, affidavits, and other
documents on the activities of the Nazis against Jews in the camps,
ghettoes, and towns of Eastern Europe. Arguably, the only apt
comparism is to The Gulag Archipelago of Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
This definitive edition of The Black Book, including for the first
time materials omitted from previous editions, is a major addition
to the literature on the Holocaust. It will be of particular
interest to students, teachers, and scholars of the Holocaust and
those interested in the history of Europe.
By the end of 1942, 1.4 million Jews had been killed by the
Einsatzgruppen that followed the German army eastward; by the end
of the war, nearly two million had been murdered in Russia and
Eastern Europe. Of the six million Jews who perished in the
Holocaust, about one-third fell in the territories of the USSR. The
single most important text documenting that slaughter is The Black
Book, compiled by two renowned Russian authors Ilya Ehrenburg and
Vasily Grossman. Until now, The Black Book was only available in
English in truncated editions. Because of its profound
significance, this new and definitive English translation of The
Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry is a major literary and
intellectual event.
From the time of the outbreak of the war, Ehrenburg and Grossman
collected the eyewitness testimonies that went into The Black Book.
As early as 1943 they were planning its publication; the first
edition appeared in 1944. During the years immediately after the
war, Grossman assisted Ehrenburg in compiling additional materials
for a second edition, which appeared in 1946 (in English as well as
Russian).
Since the fall of the Soviet regime, Irina Ehrenburg, the
daughter of Ilya Ehrenburg, has recovered the lost portions of the
manuscript sent to Yad Vashem. The texts recovered by Ms. Ehrenburg
include numerous documents that had been censored from the original
manuscript, as well as items that had been hidden by the Grossman
family. In addition, she verified and, where appropriate, corrected
the accuracy of documents that had already appeared in earlier
editions of The Black Book.
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Stalingrad (Paperback)
Vasily Grossman; Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler; Edited by Robert Chandler, Yury Bit-Yunan
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'One of the great novels of the 20th century' Observer In April
1942, Hitler and Mussolini plan the huge offensive on the Eastern
Front that will culminate in the greatest battle in human history.
Hundreds of miles away, Pyotr Vavilov receives his call-up papers
and spends a final night with his wife and children in the hut that
is his home. As war approaches, the Shaposhnikov family gathers for
a meal: despite her age, Alexandra will soon become a refugee;
Tolya will enlist in the reserves; Vera, a nurse, will fall in love
with a wounded pilot; and Viktor Shtrum will receive a letter from
his doomed mother which will haunt him forever. The war will
consume the lives of a huge cast of characters - lives which
express Grossman's grand themes of the nation and the individual,
nature's beauty and war's cruelty, love and separation. For months,
Soviet forces are driven back inexorably by the German advance
eastward and eventually Stalingrad is all that remains between the
invaders and victory. The city stands on a cliff top by the Volga
River. The battle for Stalingrad - a maelstrom of violence and
firepower - will reduce it to ruins. But it will also be the cradle
of a new sense of hope. Stalingrad is a magnificent novel not only
of war but of all human life: its subjects are mothers and
daughters, husbands and brothers, generals, nurses, political
officers, steelworkers, tractor girls. It is tender, epic, and a
testament to the power of the human spirit. 'You will not only
discover that you love his characters and want to stay with them -
that you need them in your life as much as you need your own family
and loved ones - but that at the end... you will want to read it
again' Daily Telegraph THE PREQUEL TO LIFE AND FATE NOW AVAILABLE
IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME, STALINGRAD IS A SUNDAY TIMES
BESTSELLER AND NOW A MAJOR RADIO 4 DRAMA WINNER OF MODERN LANGUAGE
ASSOCIATION "LOIS ROTH AWARD" FOR TRANSLATIONS FROM ANY LANGUAGE
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Stalingrado
Vasili Grossman
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The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewryis a collection of
eyewitness testimonies, letters, diaries, affidavits, and other
documents on the activities of the Nazis against Jews in the camps,
ghettoes, and towns of Eastern Europe. Arguably, the only apt
comparism is to The Gulag Archipelago of Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
This definitive edition of The Black Book, including for the first
time materials omitted from previous editions, is a major addition
to the literature on the Holocaust. It will be of particular
interest to students, teachers, and scholars of the Holocaust and
those interested in the history of Europe.
By the end of 1942, 1.4 million Jews had been killed by the
Einsatzgruppen that followed the German army eastward; by the end
of the war, nearly two million had been murdered in Russia and
Eastern Europe. Of the six million Jews who perished in the
Holocaust, about one-third fell in the territories of the USSR. The
single most important text documenting that slaughter is The Black
Book, compiled by two renowned Russian authors Ilya Ehrenburg and
Vasily Grossman. Until now, The Black Book was only available in
English in truncated editions. Because of its profound
significance, this new and definitive English translation of The
Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry is a major literary and
intellectual event.
From the time of the outbreak of the war, Ehrenburg and Grossman
collected the eyewitness testimonies that went into The Black Book.
As early as 1943 they were planning its publication; the first
edition appeared in 1944. During the years immediately after the
war, Grossman assisted Ehrenburg in compiling additional materials
for a second edition, which appeared in 1946 (in English as well as
Russian).
Since the fall of the Soviet regime, Irina Ehrenburg, the
daughter of Ilya Ehrenburg, has recovered the lost portions of the
manuscript sent to Yad Vashem. The texts recovered by Ms. Ehrenburg
include numerous documents that had been censored from the original
manuscript, as well as items that had been hidden by the Grossman
family. In addition, she verified and, where appropriate, corrected
the accuracy of documents that had already appeared in earlier
editions of The Black Book.
The great Russian 20th-century novel from the Sunday Times
bestselling author of Stalingrad. Life and Fate is an epic tale of
a country told through the fate of a single family, the
Shaposhnikovs. As the battle of Stalingrad looms, Grossman's
characters must work out their destinies in a world torn by
ideological tyranny and war. Completed in 1960 and then confiscated
by the KGB, this sweeping panorama of Soviet Society remained
unpublished until it was smuggled into the West in 1980, where it
was hailed as a masterpiece.
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The People Immortal (Paperback)
Vasily Grossman; Translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler
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One of Grossman's three great war novels - alongside Life and Fate
and Stalingrad. "A significant, valuable addition to Grossman's
small but powerful body of work" WILLIAM BOYD "A remarkable novel
that illuminates the terrible realities of Barbarossa and the banal
horror of warfare with incomparable understanding and insight"
JONATHAN DIMBLEBY "There are always good reasons for reading
Grossman, but few times are as resonant as our own" Financial Times
"At the heart of his writing lies a tireless humanity and empathy"
Telegraph "Grossman combines a journalist's eye with a novelist's
empathy" Spectator Set during the catastrophic defeats of the war's
first months, it tracks a Red Army regiment that wins a minor
victory in eastern Belorussia but fails to exploit this success. A
battalion is then entrusted with the task of slowing the German
advance, and eventually encircled, before ultimately breaking out
and joining with the rest of the Soviet forces. Grossman's
descriptions of the natural world - and his characters'
relationship to it - are both vivid and unexpected, as are his
memorable character sketches: eleven-year-old Lionya is determined
to hang on to his toy revolver as he walks a long distance behind
German lines; his defiant grandmother slaps a German officer in the
face and is shot; Kotenko, a fiercely anti-Soviet peasant who
initially welcomes the Germans, hangs himself in despair when they
treat him with contempt; and Semion Ignatiev, a womanizer and
gifted story-teller, turns out to be the boldest and most
resourceful of the rank-and file soldiers. Grossman spent most of
the war years close to the front line. But The People Immortal is
far from being mere morale-boosting propaganda. On the contrary, as
letters included in this volume make clear, it was read as a
textbook, and as a work of military education. This edition
includes not only the unredacted novel itself, translated here for
the first time since 1946, but also a wealth of background
material. A heavily redacted English translation of The People
Immortal was published in 1946. This current edition is the first
that reflects Grossman's original text. Translated from the Russian
by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler
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Life and Fate (Paperback)
Vasily Grossman; Introduction by Robert Chandler
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A book judged so dangerous in the Soviet Union that not only the
manuscript but the ribbons on which it had been typed were
confiscated by the state, Life and Fate is an epic tale of World
War II and a profound reckoning with the dark forces that dominated
the twentieth century.
Interweaving a transfixing account of the battle of Stalingrad with
the story of a single middle-class family, the Shaposhnikovs,
scattered by fortune from Germany to Siberia, Vasily Grossman
fashions an immense, intricately detailed tapestry depicting a time
of almost unimaginable horror and even stranger hope.
Life and Fate juxtaposes bedrooms and snipers' nests, scientific
laboratories and the Gulag, taking us deep into the hearts and
minds of characters ranging from a boy on his way to the gas
chambers to Hitler and Stalin themselves.
This novel of unsparing realism and visionary moral intensity is
one of the supreme achievements of modern Russian literature.
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Stalingrad (Paperback)
Vasily Grossman; Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler
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An Armenian Sketchbook (Paperback)
Vasily Grossman; Translated by Elizabeth Chandler, Robert Chandler
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Few writers had to confront so many of the last century's mass
tragedies as Vasily Grossman. He is likely to be remembered, above
all, for the terrifying clarity with which he writes about the
Shoah, the Battle of Stalingrad and the Terror Famine in the
Ukraine. An Armenian Sketchbook, however, shows us a very different
Grossman; it is notable for its warmth, its sense of fun and for
the benign humility that is always to be found in his writing.
After the 'arrest' - as Grossman always put it - of Life and Fate,
Grossman took on the task of editing a literal Russian translation
of a lengthy Armenian novel. The novel was of little interest to
him, but he was glad of an excuse to travel to Armenia. This is his
account of the two months he spent there. It is by far the most
personal and intimate of Grossman's works, with an air of absolute
spontaneity, as though Grossman is simply chatting to the reader
about his impressions of Armenia - its mountains, its ancient
churches and its people.
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The People Immortal (Paperback)
Vasily Grossman; Translated by Robert Chandler; Introduction by Robert Chandler; Translated by Elizabeth Chandler; Afterword by Julia Volohova
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Life and Fate (Hardcover)
Vasily Grossman; Introduction by Polly Jones; Translated by Robert Chandler
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Based around the pivotal WWII battle of Stalingrad (1942-3), where
the German advance into Russia was eventually halted by the Red
Army, and around an extended family, the Shaposhnikovs, and their
many friends and acquaintances, Life and Fate recounts the
experience of characters caught up in an immense struggle between
opposing armies and ideologies. Nazism and Communism are
appallingly similar, 'two poles of one magnet', as a German camp
commander tells a shocked old Bolshevik prisoner. At the height of
the battle Russian soldiers and citizens alike are at last able to
speak out as they choose, and without reprisal - an unexpected and
short-lived moment of freedom. Grossman himself was on the front
line as a war correspondent at Stalingrad - hence his gripping
battle scenes, though these are more than matched by the drama of
the individual conscience struggling against massive pressure to
submit to the State. He knew all about this from experience too.
His central character, Viktor Shtrum, eventually succumbs, but each
delay and act of resistance is a moral victory. Though he writes
unsparingly of war, terror and totalitarianism, Grossman also tells
of the acts of 'senseless kindness' that redeem humanity, and his
message remains one of hope. He dedicates his book, the labour of
ten years, and which he did not live to see published, to his
mother, who, like Viktor Shtrum's, was killed in the holocaust at
Berdichev in Ukraine in September 1941.
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Everything Flows (Paperback)
Vasily Grossman; Introduction by Robert Chandler; Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Anna Aslanyan
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A New York Review Books Original
"Everything Flows" is Vasily Grossman's final testament, written
after the Soviet authorities suppressed his masterpiece, Life and
Fate. The main story is simple: released after thirty years in the
Soviet camps, Ivan Grigoryevich must struggle to find a place for
himself in an unfamiliar world. But in a novel that seeks to take
in the whole tragedy of Soviet history, Ivan's story is only one
among many. Thus we also hear about Ivan's cousin, Nikolay, a
scientist who never let his conscience interfere with his career,
and Pinegin, the informer who got Ivan sent to the camps. Then a
brilliant short play interrupts the narrative: a series of
informers steps forward, each making excuses for the inexcusable
things that he did--inexcusable and yet, the informers plead, in
Stalinist Russia understandable, almost unavoidable. And at the
core of the book, we find the story of Anna Sergeyevna, Ivan's
lover, who tells about her eager involvement as an activist in the
Terror famine of 1932-33, which led to the deaths of three to five
million Ukrainian peasants. Here "Everything Flows" attains an
unbearable lucidity comparable to the last cantos of Dante's
"Inferno."
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Life and Fate (Paperback)
Vasily Grossman; Translated by Robert Chandler
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The great Russian 20th-century novel from the Sunday Times
bestselling author of Stalingrad. Life and Fate is an epic tale of
a country told through the fate of a single family, the
Shaposhnikovs. As the battle of Stalingrad looms, Grossman's
characters must work out their destinies in a world torn by
ideological tyranny and war. Completed in 1960 and then confiscated
by the KGB, this sweeping panorama of Soviet Society remained
unpublished until it was smuggled into the West in 1980, where it
was hailed as a masterpiece. 'A literary genius. His Life and Fate
is rated by many as the finest Russian novel of the 20th Century'
Mail on Sunday VINTAGE CLASSICS RUSSIAN SERIES - sumptuous editions
of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most
tumultuous period in its history.
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Vida Y Destino
Vasili Grossman
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By the author of Life and Fate, now a major Radio 4 drama starring
Kenneth Branagh. Vasily Grossman is widely recognized as one of the
outstanding literary figures of the twentieth century. The short
fiction collected here - satire, comedy, tragedy and pure narrative
- illustrate the remarkable breadth of his work, and demonstrate
all the bold intelligence, delicate irony and extraordinary
vividness for which he has become known. In addition to the eleven
stories, this volume includes the complete text of 'The Hell of
Treblinka', one of the first descriptions of a Nazi extermination
camp; a powerful and harrowing piece of journalism written only
weeks after the camp was dissolved. Beautifully illuminated by
Robert Chandler's introductions and endnotes, with photographs from
the family archive, and an Afterword by Grossman's stepson, Fyodor
Guber.
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Everything Flows (Paperback)
Vasily Grossman; Translated by Robert Chandler
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'Everything Flows is as important a novel as anything written by
Solzhenitsyn, and Robert Chandler's superb translation makes it a
joy to read' Antony Beevor Ivan Grigoryevich has been in the Gulag
for thirty years. Released after Stalin's death, he finds that the
years of terror have imposed a collective moral slavery. He must
struggle to find a place for himself in an unfamiliar world.
Grossman tells the stories of those people entwined with Ivan's
fate: his cousin Nikolay, a scientist who never let his conscience
interfere with his career, Pinegin, the informer who had Ivan sent
to the camps and Anna Sergeyevna, Ivan's lover, who tells of her
involvement as an activist in the Terror famine of 1932-3.
Everything Flows is Vasily Grossman's final testament, written
after the Soviet authorities suppressed Life and Fate. 'Vasily
Grossman is the Tolstoy of the USSR' Martin Amis
In the summer of 1941, as the Germans invade Russia, newspaper
reporter Vasily Grossman is swept to the frontlines, witnessing
some of the most savage atrocities in Russian history. As Grossman
follows the Red Army from the defence of Moscow, to the carnage at
Stalingrad, to the Nazi genocide in Treblinka, his writings paint a
vividly raw and devastating account of Operation Barbarossa during
World War Two. Grossman's notebooks, war diaries, personal
correspondence and newspaper articles are meticulously woven into a
gripping narrative and provide a piercing look into the life of the
author behind recent Sunday Times bestseller Stalingrad. A Writer
at War stands as an unforgettable eyewitness account of the Eastern
Front and places Grossman as the leading Soviet voice of 'the
ruthless truth of war'. 'A remarkable addition to the literature of
1941 - 1945...a wonderful portrait of the wartime experience of
Russia... A worthy memorial to a remarkable man' Sunday Telegraph
One of Grossman's three great war novels - alongside Life and Fate
and Stalingrad. "A significant, valuable addition to Grossman's
small but powerful body of work" WILLIAM BOYD "A remarkable novel
that illuminates the terrible realities of Barbarossa and the banal
horror of warfare with incomparable understanding and insight"
JONATHAN DIMBLEBY "There are always good reasons for reading
Grossman, but few times are as resonant as our own" Financial Times
"At the heart of his writing lies a tireless humanity and empathy"
Telegraph "Grossman combines a journalist's eye with a novelist's
empathy" Spectator Set during the catastrophic defeats of the war's
first months, it tracks a Red Army regiment that wins a minor
victory in eastern Belorussia but fails to exploit this success. A
battalion is then entrusted with the task of slowing the German
advance, and eventually encircled, before ultimately breaking out
and joining with the rest of the Soviet forces. Grossman's
descriptions of the natural world - and his characters'
relationship to it - are both vivid and unexpected, as are his
memorable character sketches: eleven-year-old Lionya is determined
to hang on to his toy revolver as he walks a long distance behind
German lines; his defiant grandmother slaps a German officer in the
face and is shot; Kotenko, a fiercely anti-Soviet peasant who
initially welcomes the Germans, hangs himself in despair when they
treat him with contempt; and Semion Ignatiev, a womanizer and
gifted story-teller, turns out to be the boldest and most
resourceful of the rank-and file soldiers. Grossman spent most of
the war years close to the front line. But The People Immortal is
far from being mere morale-boosting propaganda. On the contrary, as
letters included in this volume make clear, it was read as a
textbook, and as a work of military education. This edition
includes not only the unredacted novel itself, translated here for
the first time since 1946, but also a wealth of background
material. A heavily redacted English translation of The People
Immortal was published in 1946. This current edition is the first
that reflects Grossman's original text. Translated from the Russian
by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler
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