A First Russian edition of a novel, Zhizn i Sudba Roman, Life and Fate, roman by Vasily Grossman. The publication was prepared by S. Markish and E. Etkind; introductory article by E. Etkind. Edition: LAge DHomme, 1980. 608 pp. In the publishers cover. The manuscript of the novel Life and Fate, which is strongly anti Stalin in nature, on which the writer had been working since 1950, was given by the author for publication to the editors of the magazine Znamya. In February 1961, copies of the manuscript and drafts were confiscated during a KGB search of Grossman's house. A copy of the novel, which was located for reprinting in the editorial office of the New World magazine, was also confiscated. Another copy of the novel, saved by Grossmans friend, the poet Lipkin, was exported to the West in the mid 1970s, after the writers death, with the help of Sakharov and Voinovich. The novel was published in Switzerland in 1980; it was transcribed from microfilm by emigrant professors Etkind from Paris and Markish from Geneva. Vasily Semyonovich Grossman, 1905 to 1964, was a Soviet writer and journalist. Librarian Specimens, First Printed Edition Books for Collectors.