Further Reading
Ilya Altman and Joshua Rubenstein. The Unknown Black Book. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008.
Anne Applebaum. Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps. New York: Doubleday, 2003.
Yitzhak Arad. Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.
Jonathan Brent and Vladimir P. Naumov. Stalin’s Last Crime: The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors, 1948–1953. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.
Witold Chrostowski. Extermination Camp Treblinka. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2004.
Alexander Donat, ed. The Death Camp Treblinka. New York: Holocaust Library, 1979.
Ilya Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman. The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry. David Patterson, trans. and ed. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2002.
Orlando Figes. The Whisperers. London: Penguin, 2008.
Sheila Fitzpatrick. Everyday Stalinism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
John and Carol Garrard. The Bones of Berdichev. New York: The Free Press, 1996.
J. Arch Getty and Oleg Naumov. Yezhov: The Rise of Stalin’s “Iron Fist.” New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008.
Richard Glazar. Trap with a Green Fence. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1992.
Vasily Grossman. Everything Flows. Robert and Elizabeth Chandler with Anna Aslanyan, trans. New York: New York Review Books, 2009.
———. Life and Fate. Robert Chandler, trans. New York: New York Review Books, 2006.
———. A Writer at War. Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova, eds. and trans. New York: Pantheon, 2005.
Marc Jansen and Nikita Petrov. Stalin’s Loyal Executioner: People’s Commissar Nikolai Ezhov 1895–1940. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2002.
Mark Mazower. Hitler’s Empire. London: Penguin, 2008.
Catherine Merridale. Night of Stone. London: Granta, 2001.
Simon Sebag Montefiore. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar. London: Orion, 2004.
Rachel Polonsky. Molotov’s Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History. London: Faber, 2010.
Donald Rayfield. Stalin and His Hangmen. London: Penguin, 2005.
Richard Rhodes. Masters of Death: The Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust. New York: Vintage, 2003.
Gitta Sereny. Into that Darkness. London: Pimlico, 1995.
Timothy Snyder. Bloodlands. New York: Basic Books, 2010.
Arkady Vaksberg, Stalin Against the Jews. New York: Knopf, 1994.
Samuel Willenberg. Surviving Treblinka. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989.
Acknowledgments
I am especially grateful to Vasily Grossman’s daughter, Yekaterina Korotkova, and his stepson Fyodor Guber, both of whom have been patient and generous in answering my many questions. All quotations or references without endnotes are from personal correspondence. I also thank Fyodor Guber and his daughter Elena Guber for allowing us to reproduce a number of photographs from their fine collection.
It has been a joy, as always, to collaborate with my wife, Elizabeth, and a great pleasure to collaborate for the first time with Yury Bit-Yunan and Olga Mukovnikova. Olga Meerson has, as always, provided brilliant insights, especially into “In the Town of Berdichev,” and Vadim Altskan has sent me copies of important material from the archives of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
I also wish to thank Lily Alexander, Antony Beevor, Karel Berkhoff, Michael Berry, David Black, Emily Van Buskirk, Inna Caron, Frederick Choate, Elizabeth Cook, Jane Costlow, Vivian Curran, Martin Dewhirst, Masha Dmitrovskaya, Irina Dolgova, Jean-marc Dreyfus, David Fel'dman, Jennifer Foray, John and Carol Garrard, Andrew Glikin-Gusinsky, Igor Golomstock, Elena Fyodorovna Guber, Gasan Gusejnov, Jochen Hellbeck, Jeremy Hicks, Gerard Jacobs, Elana Jakel, Mike Jones, Martha Kapos, Leigh Kimmel, Giovanni Maddalena, Nina Malygina, Irina Mashinski, Tatiana Menaker, Mark Miller, Polina Morozova, Nina Murray, Anna Muza, Elena Ostrovskaya, Katarina Peitlova, Anne Pitt, John Puckett, Donald Rayfield, Joe Roeber, Margo Rosen, Karen Rosneck, Tim Sergay, Nina Shevchuk, Jekaterina Shulga, Robert Smith, Tim Snyder, Pietro Tosco, Val Vinokur, Yevgeny Yablokov, Sarah Young, and the many members of my translation classes at Queen Mary, University of London, and of the seelangs e-mail discussion group who have contributed to these translations.
—R.C.
Contributors
Yury Bit-Yunan was born in western Russia, in the city of Bryansk. He graduated from the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow, where he now lectures in literary criticism. He is writing his doctorate on Vasily Grossman.
Elizabeth Chandler is a co-translator, with her husband, of Alexander Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter, of Vasily Grossman’s Everything Flows, and of several volumes of Andrey Platonov: The Return, The Portable Platonov, Happy Moscow, and Soul.
Robert Chandler is the editor of Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida and the author of Alexander Pushkin (in the Hesperus Brief Lives series). His translations of Sappho and Guillaume Apollinaire are published in the series Everyman’s Poetry. His translations from Russian include Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate and Everything Flows, Nikolay Leskov’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, and Alexander Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter and Dubrovsky. Along with Olga Meerson and his wife, Elizabeth, he has translated a number of works by Andrey Platonov. One of these, Soul, won the American Association of Teachers of Slavonic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) Prize for 2004. His translation of Hamid Ismailov’s The Railway won the AATSEEL prize for 2007 and received a special commendation from the judges of the 2007 Rossica Translation Prize.
Fyodor Guber is the son of the writer Boris Guber, who was arrested and shot in 1937, and of Olga Mikhailovna, Vasily Grossman’s second wife. From 1937 Vasily Grossman was Fyodor’s official guardian and substitute father. Fyodor Guber is the author of a number of scientific papers about polymer mechanics, several articles about Vasily Grossman, and a selection of Grossman’s letters and biographical material titled Memory and Letters (Pamyat' i pis'ma)”
Olga Mukovnikova is a freelance translator and a member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists. She graduated from Oryol State University in 1998, where she read English and history. Since 2004 Mukovnikova has worked as a translator and translation reviser for Amnesty International. She lives and works in the United Kingdom.
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Copyright © by E.V. Korotkova-Grossman and F.B.Guber
Translation, commentary, and notes copyright © 2010 by Robert Chandler
Photographs © Fyodor Guber
All rights reserved.
Cover art: Erich Hartmann, Treblinka Memorial, Poland, 1994. © Erich Hartmann/Magnum Photos; Cover design: Katy Homans
Most of the pieces in this volume are translated from the texts published in Sobranie sochinenii v 4-h tomakh (Moscow: Agraf, 1998). “A Small Life” and “The Old Man” are included in V gorode Berdicheve (Yekaterinburg: U–Faktoriya, 2005). “The Old Teacher” is available at http://www.lib.ru. Grossman’s two letters to his mother are included in Fyodor Guber, Pamyat' i pis'ma (Moscow: Probel, 2007), p. 78–9.
Earlier versions of some of these translations appeared in Chtenia ("The Road"), The New Yorker ("In Kislovodsk"), and Prospect ("The Dog").
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Grossman, Vasilii Semenovich.
The road / by Vasily Grossman ; introduction by Robert Chandler ; translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, and Olga Mukovnikova.
p. cm. — (New York Review Books classics)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-59017-361-9 (alk. paper)
I. Chandler, Robert, 1953- II. Chandler, Elizabeth, 1947- III. Mukovnikova, Olga. IV. Title.
PG3476.G7R56 2010
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2010023048
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