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Ivan Grigoryevich is a political prisoner set free after thirty years in Siberia by Stalin's death. Returning to the fragments of his former life, and encountering those whose lies sent him to the Gulag, he finds that the years of terror have destroyed ordinary decency and imposed a collective moral slavery. The central story of Ivan's struggle to find a place for himself in an unfamiliar world is simple yet moving. But the reader is given only the bare bones of Ivan's story - Grossman had too much to say, and too short a time to live, to concern himself with conventional novel-writing. Interspersed with Ivan's story are other stories. A miniature play - a mock-trial of four different informers - is a subtle examination of the pressures that force people to compromise with an evil regime. He writes of Russian history and the 'Russian soul', about Lenin and Stalin, about Moscow prisons in 1937 and about the fate of women in the Gulag, all in a bold, perceptive and uncompromising style. And his account of the least known act of genocide of the last century - the "Terror Famine" that killed around five million Ukrainian peasants in 1932-33 - is unbearably lucid, comparable in its power only to the last cantos of Dante's Inferno.
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Vasily Grossman was born in 1905. In 1941 he became a correspondent for the Red Army newspaper, Red Star, reporting on the defence of Stalingrad, the fall of Berlin and the consequences of the Holocaust, work collected in A Writer at War. Life and Fate, his masterpiece, was considered a threat to the totalitarian regime, and Grossman was told that there was no chance of it being published for another 200 years. Grossman began Everything Flows in 1955 and was still working on it during his last days in hospital in September 1964.
Ivan Grigoryevich is a political prisoner set free after thirty years in Siberia by Stalin's death. Returning to the fragments of his former life, and encountering those whose lies sent him to the Gulag, he finds that the years of terror have destroyed ordinary decency and imposed a collective moral slavery. The central story of Ivan's struggle to find a place for himself in an unfamiliar world is simple yet moving. But the reader is given only the bare bones of Ivan's story - Grossman had too much to say, and too short a time to live, to concern himself with conventional novel-writing. Interspersed with Ivan's story are other stories. A miniature play - a mock-trial of four different informers - is a subtle examination of the pressures that force people to compromise with an evil regime. He writes of Russian history and the 'Russian soul', about Lenin and Stalin, about Moscow prisons in 1937 and about the fate of women in the Gulag, all in a bold, perceptive and uncompromising style. And his account of the least known act of genocide of the last century - the "Terror Famine" that killed around five million Ukrainian peasants in 1932-33 - is unbearably lucid, comparable in its power only to the last cantos of Dante's Inferno.
About the Author
Vasily Grossman was born in 1905. In 1941 he became a correspondent for the Red Army newspaper, Red Star, reporting on the defence of Stalingrad, the fall of Berlin and the consequences of the Holocaust, work collected in A Writer at War. Life and Fate, his masterpiece, was considered a threat to the totalitarian regime, and Grossman was told that there was no chance of it being published for another 200 years. Grossman began Everything Flows in 1955 and was still working on it during his last days in hospital in September 1964.
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