Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century
Alexandra Popoff
If Vasily Grossman's 1961 masterpiece, Life and Fate, had been published during his lifetime, it would have reached the world together with Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, and before Solzhenitsyn's Gulag. But Life and Fate was seized by the KGB. When it emerged posthumously, decades later, it was recognized as the War and Peace of the twentieth century. Always at the epicenter of events, Grossman (1905-1964) was among the first to describe the Holocaust and the Ukrainian famine. His 1944 article "The Hell of Treblinka," became evidence at Nuremberg. Grossman's powerful anti-totalitarian works liken the Nazis' crimes against humanity with those of Stalin. We are only now able to examine Grossman's prose, which has the everlasting quality of great art, as well as his life and legacy, which Popoff's authoritative biography illuminates.
Duration - 15h 44m.
Author - Alexandra Popoff.
Narrator - Stefan Rudnicki.
Published Date - Wednesday, 21 January 2026.
Copyright - © 2019 Alexandra Popoff ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
If Vasily Grossman's 1961 masterpiece, Life and Fate, had been published during his lifetime, it would have reached the world together with Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, and before Solzhenitsyn's Gulag. But Life and Fate was seized by the KGB. When it emerged posthumously, decades later, it was recognized as the War and Peace of the twentieth century. Always at the epicenter of events, Grossman (1905-1964) was among the first to describe the Holocaust and the Ukrainian famine. His 1944 article "The Hell of Treblinka," became evidence at Nuremberg. Grossman's powerful anti-totalitarian works liken the Nazis' crimes against humanity with those of Stalin. We are only now able to examine Grossman's prose, which has the everlasting quality of great art, as well as his life and legacy, which Popoff's authoritative biography illuminates. Duration - 15h 44m. Author - Alexandra Popoff. Narrator - Stefan Rudnicki. Published Date - Wednesday, 21 January 2026. Copyright - © 2019 Alexandra Popoff ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:27
Preface and Acknowledgments
Duration:00:08:16
Introduction
Duration:00:17:38
Chapter 1
Duration:01:02:29
Chapter 2
Duration:00:59:13
Chapter 3
Duration:00:46:18
Chapter 4
Duration:00:54:50
Chapter 5
Duration:00:58:57
Chapter 6
Duration:00:29:52
Chapter 7
Duration:00:38:07
Chapter 8
Duration:01:06:32
Chapter 9
Duration:01:29:35
Chapter 10
Duration:01:24:52
Chapter 11
Duration:01:06:42
Chapter 12
Duration:00:56:38
Chapter 13
Duration:01:06:35
Chapter 14
Duration:00:53:27
Chapter 15
Duration:00:54:05
Epilogue
Duration:00:30:07