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Suppressed by the KGB, Life and Fate is a rich and vivid account of what the Second World War meant to the Soviet Union. On its completion in 1960, Life and Fate was suppressed by the KGB. Twenty years later, the novel was smuggled out of the Soviet Union on microfilm. At the centre of this... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Viktor Pavlovich: Add a description of this character.
- Lyudmila
- Krymov
- Sokolov
- Novikov
- Alexandra Vladimirovna
- Marya Ivanovna
- Stalin
- Getmanov
- Darensky
- Vera
- Liss
- Paulus
- Grekov
- Yevgenia
- Markov
- David
- Spiridonov
- Madyarov
- Yershov
- Yeremenko
- Chepyzhin
- Katya
- Byerozkin
- Pyotr Lavrentyevich
- Mostovskoy
- Hitler
- Shishakov
- Nadya
- Chuykov
- Abarchuk
- Chernetsov
- Klimov
- Andreyev
- Bova
- Stepan Fyodorovich
- Pivovarov
- Sofya Levinton
- Natalya
- Tolya
- Savostyanov
- Sagaydak
- Lenin
- Berman
- Mashuk
- Polyakov
- Karimov
- Osipov
- Grishin
Setting & Locations edit
- Moscow
- Volga
- Kazan
- Russia
- Zhenya
- Lubyanka
- Seryozha
- Berlin
- Ukraine
- Germany
- Siberia
- Kuibyshev
- Kiev
- Saratov
- Vanya
- Paris
- Bukharin
- Batyuk
- Svechin
- Nyeudobnov
- Kolyma
- Nozdrin
- Shtrum
- Dostoyevsky
- Vitya
- Europe
- England
- Mitya
- Kovchenko
- Kremlin
- Poland
- Zakabluka
- Kalach
- Solomatin
- Odessa
- Rodimtsev
- Ufa
- Tractor Factory
- Soviet Union
- Kuznetsky Most
- Mamayev Kurgan
- Sebastopol
- Sverdlovsk
- Tashkent
- India
First Sentence edit
There was a low mist.
Table of Contents edit
Part I
Part II
Part III
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read. (authoritative list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Vasily Grossman (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Robert Chandler (Introduction)
- Robert Chandler (Translator)
First Edition edit
Original Language: Russian
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Page Count: 1500
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Page Count: 1500
Classification edit
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- Dewey: 813
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