Author: Nekrasov, Viktor
Title: V Okopakh Stalingrada
Description: Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Khudozhestvennoi Literatury, 1948. Second printing; 5 x 8; [2], 3-263, [1]; brick-red cloth over boards; beige and blue title and decoration; minor wear to corners; last few pages a bit brittle; stamp of "Russian American Society of San Francisco" to title page and fore-edge; overall very good or better condition. Viktor Nekrasov was a Soviet journalist, writer, and editor. His current book - "In the Trenches of Stalingrad" - was based on his experiences as an officer in the Red Army during WWII. For it, in 1947, Stalin bestowed on him the Soviet Union's highest literary award. The novel has often been compared to Erich Maria Remarque's 'All Quiet on the Western Front' for its simple narrative. In the 1960s the author was denounced by Nikita Khrushchev for his refusal to conform and was threatened with becoming a persona-non-grata unless he stopped supporting his friends Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov. Nekrasov left for France in 1974 where he became a prominent figure among the Soviet dissidents in Paris. His Soviet citizenship was revoked in 1979. Ill.: 0. 2.

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