Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century

Review "Alexandra Popoff's biography is crisp and comprehensive, deftly interweaving Grossman's personal life with the momentous events he experienced. The portrait she paints in Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century is of a highly intelligent and surprisingly cheerful man, who viewed the world with a kind and quizzical gaze and defended his friends and principles with near-reckless courage. As she writes, it was the worst and most dangerous time to be a humanist, pacifist and internationalist. His core belief that 'there is no end in the world for the sake of which it is permissible to sacrifice human freedom' was a forthright challenge to both Nazism and Stalinism." -- Financial Times

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