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…This New Translation of a Russian Epic Restores What Censors Stole - The Millions. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The idea that Stalingrad must be Grossman’s lesser book is a legacy of Soviet censorship, Robert says. Grossman wrote the novel in the late 1940s and early ’50s, when all literature in the Soviet Union had to follow the tenets of socialist realism. Official doctrine demanded a “historically specific depiction of reality,” in which characters would undergo “ideological rework… in the spirit of socialism.”

We have a flourishing crop of would-be censors in our  own society these days.