Vasiliy Grossman

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Vasiliy Grossman was a Soviet writer and journalist best known for his epic World War II novel "Life and Fate," which offered a powerful, critical portrayal of totalitarianism.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf human
journalist
war correspondent
writer
censorshipStatus Life and Fate banned in the Soviet Union
works suppressed in the Soviet Union
countryOfCitizenship Russian Empire
Soviet Union
coveredConflict World War II
coveredEvent Battle of Stalingrad
liberation of Nazi concentration camps
ethnicGroup Jews
familyName Grossman
genre historical fiction
journalism
war novel
givenName Vasily
surface form: Vasiliy
hasSubject Jewish suffering in the Holocaust
Soviet totalitarianism in Life and Fate
moral choices under dictatorship
influenced Holocaust literature
later dissident writers
influencedBy Fyodor Dostoevsky
Leo Tolstoy
Russian realist tradition
languageOfWorkOrName Russian
movement Soviet literature
dissident literature
notableFor critical portrayal of totalitarianism
depiction of life in the Soviet Union
eyewitness accounts of the Eastern Front
notableWork Everything Flows
For a Just Cause
Life and Fate
The Hell of Treblinka
The People Immortal
occupation journalist
novelist
short story writer
war correspondent
politicalAlignment anti-totalitarian
sexOrGender male
workLocation Moscow
Stalingrad
wroteAbout Holocaust
Nazism
Soviet society
Stalinism
World War II
totalitarianism

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Union of Soviet Writers hasMember Vasiliy Grossman
this entity surface form: Vasily Grossman
Berdichev hasNotableResident Vasiliy Grossman