The bones of Berdichev : the life and fate of Vasily Grossman

Book 1996

"Born a Russian Jew and an ardent patriot of the Soviet motherland, Vasily Grossman rationalized away the Stalinist horror of his time as he chronicled the Red Army's westward sweep during World War II, becoming the Soviet Army's premier wartime correspondent. It was not until he discovered 30,000 victims were massacred by Nazi forces in his hometown of Berdichev - including his own mother - that he confronted his own Jewishness and the genocidal...

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Dissenters Soviet Union Biography

Grossman, Vasili♯Ư Semenovich

Jewish authors Soviet Union Biography

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ISBN:

9780684822952
0684822954

Description:

xxv, 437 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-422) and index

LCCN:

95033655 //r98

Control Number:

64301

Other Authors:

Garrard, Carol, author

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