Za pravoe delo [Stalingrad]

'For a just cause' (1943-1952, publ. 1952) - the first part of the 'Stalingrad' dilogy of Vasily Grossman, better known to the reader in her second novel, 'Life and Fate' (1950-1959, publ. 1980), which he brought to the author world fame. Having grown out of the real front-line experience of Grossman, a war correspondent for the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper, who personally participated in battles on the front line of the defense of Stalingrad, this book was crushed by party critics when it came out, which turned into a real persecution of the writer and predetermined the difficult publishing fate second part of the dilogy. Today, this novel, which captures the pain and loss of the first years of the war, is on a par with the best examples of Russian prose, filled with 'trench truths' about the great battle, such as 'Days and Nights' and 'Living and Dead' by K. Simonov, ' In the trenches of Stalingrad 'V. Nekrasov,' Hot Snow 'Y. Bondarev. Grossman created a book that was sustained in the e