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The Life and Fate of Vasily Grossman, Banned Russian Novelist
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The Life and Fate of Vasily Grossman, Banned Russian Novelist

By Timothy Sandefur

Oct 29, 2022
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The Life and Fate of Vasily Grossman, Banned Russian Novelist
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Vasily Grossman’s novel The People Immortal—which has just been republished in a new translation by scholars Robert and Elizabeth Chandler—is a work of Soviet war propaganda. It first appeared in 1942 while Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler were squandering millions of lives in Eastern Europe. It’s bland and formulaic, with a predictable plot about a milit…

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