![]() The ending of capitalism was to have ushered in a benevolent dictatorship of the proletariat. ![]() In 1941, on the eve of war with Germany, the Soviet Union was a failure by any measure and a spectacular failure when measured against the proclaimed ideals of the Russian Revolution. Stalingrad is the same author, shackled in his expression. But Life and Fate confronts Stalinism directly and analyzes the many ways a totalitarian regime obtains the complicity of individuals in its lies and murder. Life and Fate picks up chronologically where Stalingrad leaves off, at the peak of the battle for the city, and a number of key characters appear in both works. The two novels are remarkably similar and utterly different. Its more famous sequel, Life and Fate, Grossman’s masterpiece, was written after Stalin’s death and refused publication. ![]() STALINGRAD, NOW APPEARING in English, was first published in Russian in 1952, the last year of Stalin’s life. ![]()
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