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Vasily Grossman

1905 - 1964
Vasily Grossman

­Vasily Grossman was a Soviet war reporter. Following Stalin's anti-Semitic policy, Grossman turned into a dissident writer.

His most famous work is Life and Fate about the totalitarian society during the Second World War. It was so controversial that at the time he was told by authorities it couldn't be published for a few hundred years.

However, a copy of the book was smuggled to the West and was published in the 1980s.

­A small life

The text of the short story translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler and Olga Mukovnikova is provided by RT partner, the Cardinal Points Literary Journal.

Everything flows

Chapter 11 from "Everything Flows", translated by Robert Chandler, along with the translator's commentary, is provided by RT partner, the Cardinal Points Literary Journal.