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Life and fate

by Vasily Grossman, Robert Chandler

Set during the Battle of Stalingrad, this novel follows the Shaposhnikov family through the ideological tyranny of Soviet society. Confiscated by the KGB in 1960, the manuscript was smuggled to the West and published in 1980.

Accession 22546 ISBN 9781784871963 Publisher Vintage Books
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