Robert Chandler

Witness for the prosecution | 17 April 2019

The Russian writer bravely documented Stalin’s purges, the battle of Stalingrad and the Shoah on both Soviet and Polish soil

issue 20 April 2019

  • Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century

    Alexandra Popoff

    Yale University Press, pp. 424

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