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008			181002s20192019nyub b 000 1 eng d
020			_a9781681373270
050	0	0	_aPG3476.G7 _bZ2313 2019
082	1		_aFIC GRO _2
100	1		_aGrossman, Vasilii Semenovich _d(, 1905-1964)
245	1	0	_aStalingrad _c/ Vasily Grossman; edited by Robert Chandler and Yury Bit-Yunan.
260			_aNew York _b: New York Book Review _c, 2019
300			_a1053 p. _c; 21 cm
490	1		_aNew York Review Books classics
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_aVassily 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.
546			_aTranslated from the Russian to English
650		4	_aStalingrad, Battle of _z-Volgograd, Russia _y-1942-1943 _x-Fiction
651		4	_aSoviet Union _x-History _z-German occupation _y-1941-1944 _x-Fiction.
651		4	_aSoviet Union _v--Fiction
700	1		_aChandler, Robert _f. 1953-
700	1		_aChandler, Elizabeth _d(, 1947-)
942			_cMO
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