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2) Stalingrad
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Vassily Grossman (1905 - 1964) has become well-known in the last twenty years - above all for his novel Life and Fate. This has often been described as a Soviet (or anti-Soviet) War and Peace. Most readers, however, do not realize that it is only the second half of a dilogy. The first half, originally titled Stalingrad but published in 1952 under the title For a just cause, has received surprisingly little attention. Scholars and critics seem to...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Vasily Grossman's three war novels are recognizably the work of the same writer; all display his sharp psychological insights and his gift for descriptive passages that appeal to all our different senses. Nevertheless, the goals he set himself in these novels are very different. Life and Fate is not only a novel but also a work of moral and political philosophy, focusing on the question of whether or not it is possible for someone to behave ethically...
10) Commissar
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Russian
Description
Set during Russian Civil War, a female-commissar of the Red Army learns she is pregnant and must stay with a Jewish family until she has given birth; after her son is born she must decide between motherhood and military duty.
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