![]() ![]() In 1986, I translated and published a version in English. Eventually, however, a microfilm was smuggled out of the Soviet Union, and, in 1980, the text was finally published, in Switzerland, in the original Russian. ![]() confiscated most copies of the typescript. This made “Life and Fate” anathema to the Soviet authorities, and the K.G.B. A central and powerfully argued theme is the equivalence of the Nazi and Stalinist regimes. The novel includes many subplots-some civilian, some military, some set in German or Soviet concentration camps. The Soviet Jewish writer Vasily Grossman’s novel “ Life and Fate,” completed in 1960, is an epic story centered on the Battle of Stalingrad, the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany that marked the turning point in the Second World War. Vasily Grossman faced Soviet censorship and editorial hurdles during the publication process of his novel “Stalingrad.” Photograph from Sputnik / Alamy ![]()
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