Topic: Vasily Semenovich Grossman

Vasily Semenovich Grossman 1905-64, Russian novelist and journalist, b. Berdichev, Ukraine. He graduated (1929) from Moscow State Univ., published novels and short stories, and became a noted Russian war correspondent during World War II. Although he began objecting to Stalin's support of anti-Semitism during the 1940s, he remained a fixture of the Soviet literary establishment until the early 1950s. His novel of the siege of Stalingrad, For a Just Cause (1954), was widely critized by Soviet authorities for the Jewish portion of its content. Its sequel, the vivid and sweeping masterpiece... Read more