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Stalingrad / Vasily Grossman ; translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler ; edited by Robert Chandler and Yury Bit-Yunan.
"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 have assumed that, since it was first published in Stalin's lifetime, it can only be considered empty propaganda. In reality, there is little difference between the two novels. The chapters in the earlier novel about the Shaposhnikov family are as tender, and sometimes humorous, as in the later novel. The chapters devoted to the long retreats of 1941 and the first half of 1942 are perhaps still more vivid than the battle scenes in the later novel"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9781681373270 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: xxix, 1053 pages : maps ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: New York : New York Review Books, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Inclbies bibliographical references. |
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| Subject: | Classics > Fiction Literary > Fiction Stalingrad, Battle of, Volgograd, Russia, 1942-1943 > Fiction. Soviet Union > History > German occupation, 1941-1944 > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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Follows the lives of the Shaposhnikov family during the German occupation of Stalingrad, from matriarch Alexandra Vladimirovna, who refuses to leave as the Germans advance, to her daughter Ludmila, unhappily married to a Jewish physicist. - Baker & Taylor
"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 have assumed that, since it was first published in Stalin's lifetime, it can only be considered empty propaganda. In reality, there is little difference between the two novels. The chapters in the earlier novel about the Shaposhnikov family are as tender, and sometimes humorous, as in the later novel. The chaptersdevoted to the long retreats of 1941 and the first half of 1942 are perhaps still more vivid than the battle scenes in the later novel" -- - Random House, Inc.
Now in English for the first time, the prequel to Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate, the War and Peace of the twentieth Century.
In April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini meet in Salzburg where they agree on a renewed assault on the Soviet Union. Launched in the summer, the campaign soon picks up speed, as the routed Red Army is driven back to the industrial center of Stalingrad on the banks of the Volga. In the rubble of the bombed-out city, Soviet forces dig in for a last stand.
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The story told in Vasily Grossmanâs Stalingrad unfolds across the length and breadth of Russia and Europe, and its characters include mothers and daughters, husbands and brothers, generals, nurses, political activists, steelworkers, and peasants, along with Hitler and other historical figures. At the heart of the novel is the Shaposhnikov family. Even as the Germans advance, the matriarch, Alexandra Vladimirovna, refuses to leave Stalingrad. Far from the front, her eldest daughter, Ludmila, is unhappily married to the Jewish physicist Viktor Shtrum. Viktorâs research may be of crucial military importance, but he is distracted by thoughts of his mother in the Ukraine, lost behind German lines.Â
In Stalingrad, published here for the first time in English translation, and in its celebrated sequel, Life and Fate, Grossman writes with extraordinary power and deep compassion about the disasters of war and the ruthlessness of totalitarianism, without, however, losing sight of the little things that are the daily currency of human existence or of humanityâs inextinguishable, saving attachment to nature and life. Grossmanâs two-volume masterpiece can now be seen as one of the supreme accomplishments of twentieth-century literature, tender and fearless, intimate and epic.
