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Vasily Semyonovich Grossman (, ; December 12, 1905–September 14, 1964) was a Soviet writer and journalist. Grossman trained as an engineer and worked in the Donets Basin, but changed career in the 1930s. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he became a war correspondent for the Red Army newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda, writing firsthand accounts of the battles of Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, and Berlin. Grossman's eyewitness accounts of conditions in a Nazi extermination camp, following the liberation of Treblinka, were among the earliest.

After World War II, Grossman's faith in the Soviet state was shaken by Joseph Stalin's embrace of antisemitism. While Grossman was never arrested by Soviet authorities, his two major literary works—Life and Fate and Forever Flowing—were censored as unacceptably anti-Soviet, and Grossman himself became a nonperson. The KGB raided Grossman's apartment after he had completed Life and Fate, seizing the manuscripts, notes, and even the ribbon from the typewriter on which the text had been written. The book remained censored by Nikita Krushchev after Stalin's death; Grossman was told by Mikhail Suslov that it could not be published for at least two hundred years. At the time of Grossman's death from stomach cancer in 1964, his books were unreleased. They were eventually smuggled out of the Soviet Union by a network of dissidents, including Andrei Sakharov and Vladimir Voinovich, and first published in the USSR in 1988.

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Total Books: 31
Stalingrad
2019 - Stalingrad [New York Review Books Classics] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781681373270
ISBN-10: 1681373270
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Life and Destiny
2015 - Life and Destiny [Chinese Edition] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9787549567027
ISBN-10: 7549567026
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The Hell of Treblinka
2014 - The Hell of Treblinka (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781500208721
ISBN-10: 1500208728
Genre: History
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An Armenian Sketchbook
2013 - An Armenian Sketchbook (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780857052353
ISBN-10: 0857052357
Genres: History, Reference, Travel
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The Road
2010 - The Road (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781590173619
ISBN-10: 1590173619
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Everything Flows
2009 - Everything Flows [New York Review Books Classics] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781590173282
ISBN-10: 1590173287
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
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Vida y destino/ Life and Fate
2009 - Vida Y Destino/ Life and Fate [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9788483468708
ISBN-10: 8483468700
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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A Writer at War A Soviet Journalist with the Red Army 19411945
2007 - A Writer at War a Soviet Journalist with the Red Army 19411945 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780307275332
ISBN-10: 0307275337
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, History, Reference
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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A Writer at War Vasily Grossman with the Red Army
2007 - A Writer at War Vasily Grossman with the Red Army (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780676978117
ISBN-10: 0676978118
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction
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Life and Fate
2006 - Life and Fate (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780099506164
ISBN-10: 0099506165
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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A Writer at War  Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 19411945
2006 - A Writer at War Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 19411945 (Hardcover)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780375424076
ISBN-10: 0375424075
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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Writer at War
2005 - Writer at War (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781843430551
ISBN-10: 184343055X
Genre: History
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The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry
2003 - The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780765805430
ISBN-10: 076580543X
Genre: History
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Forever Flowing
1997 - Forever Flowing (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780810115033
ISBN-10: 0810115034
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 4.5/5 Stars.
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Life and Fate Vasily Grossman
1987 - Life and Fate Vasily Grossman (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780060913847
ISBN-10: 0060913843
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Life and Fate A Novel
1986 - Life and Fate a Novel (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780060153656
ISBN-10: 0060153652
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 1.5/5 Stars.
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