The Life And Fate Of Vasily Grossman -

Grossman rose to fame as a war correspondent for the Red Army newspaper Red Star . He was on the front lines of the most pivotal moments of the Eastern Front, from the desperate defense of Moscow to the epic Battle of Stalingrad .

: In the ruins of Stalingrad, Grossman saw a spirit of genuine community and freedom among the rank-and-file soldiers that he believed "washed away" the fear of Stalinist terror. This realization became the philosophical core of his later writing. The Life and Fate of Vasily Grossman

: After the war, Grossman’s shift toward uncompromising realism met brutal state resistance. In 1961, the KGB did not arrest Grossman himself, but they "arrested" his manuscript for Life and Fate , seizing every draft, carbon copy, and even his typewriter ribbons. He died of cancer in 1964, believing his masterpiece would never be read. Life and Fate : The Epic of Freedom Grossman rose to fame as a war correspondent