![]() Though never a party member, he witnessed first hand the major political and literary debates and struggles of the 1920s, in which Leon Trotsky’s Left Opposition opposed the nationalist betrayal of the October Revolution by the Soviet bureaucracy. ![]() ![]() After the 1917 October Revolution and the civil war, Grossman moved to Moscow in 1923 where he studied to become an engineer. Soviet writer Vasily Grossman ( Stalingrad, Life and Fate, The People Immortal) was born in 1905, the year of the first Russian Revolution, in Berdichev, a town in what is now Ukraine, which then formed part of the Russian Empire. ![]()
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