Life and Fate was written by Grossman across the 1950s and reflects his growing dissatisfaction with the Soviet state. In contrast to Stalingrad, it moves away from socialist realism, explicitly comparing the Soviet Union with Nazi Germany
The Music of Destruction | Mathias Fuelling
Well, Lenin and Trotsky were signing treaties one day and tearing them up the next over a decade before self-described " SOCIALIST REVOLUTIONARIES " , Adolph and Goebbels.
You could call it fate.
Especially when they all get financed by a warmongering Prussian Police state
Tolstoy’s view of history, with its rejection of the idea of Great Men and premised on an inherent unknowability, is born out in Grossman’s wartime articles. For Grossman, it is the little men and their small actions that move history. Meanwhile, the grand narratives of Soviet progress have gone awry, the state collapsing and breaking apart. Out of a failed utopia a new corrupt state has emerged, driven by oligarchical interests and narratives of reclaiming lost greatness. The newspaper Red Star continues on as the official publication of the Russian military.
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