Vasily Grossman
stomach cancer
['multiple myeloma', 'parcel bomb', 'lethal injection', 'acute hepatitis', 'hepatic cirrhosis', 'heart failure', 'operation anthropoid', 'melanoma', 'testicular cancer', 'ebola', 'brain tumour', 'kolbotn', 'progeria', 'prostate cancer', 'colon', 'laryngeal cancer', 'esophagus', 'pancreatic cancer', 'esophageal cancer', 'aneurysm', 'leukemia', 'liver cirrhosis', 'brain', 'myeloma', 'ovarian cancer', 'kidney', 'progressive supranuclear palsy', 'respiratory failure', 'breast', 'cancer', 'enteric fever', 'acute erythroid leukemia', 'crucifying', 'leukaemia', 'summarily executed', 'gassed', 'appendicitis', 'electrocution', 'congestive heart failure', 'heart attack', 'bladder cancer', 'crucify', 'tubercular meningitis', 'barbiturates', 'cirrhosis', 'ovarian cyst', 'epidural hematoma', 'ebola virus disease', 'skin cancer', 'road traffic collision', 'cyanide poisoning', 'dengue fever', 'septicemia', 'suicide', 'regicide', 'cerebral edema', 'leper', 'epilepsy', 'lymphatic cancer', 'depression', 'myelosclerosis', 'liver failure', 'armenian genocide', 'cystic fibrosis', 'basilar skull fracture', 'beheading', 'road traffic accident', 'lupus', 'brain haemorrhage', 'asthma', 'cardiovascular disease', 'anal cancer', 'pyaemia', 'death penalty', 'bowel cancer', 'diphtheria', 'ms', 'lowestoft', 'yellow fever', 'spanish flu pandemic', 'milk sickness', 'nephritis', 'double pneumonia', 'lynched', 'spanish flu', 'hepatitis c', 'multiple sclerosis', 'tetanus', 'mistletoe', 'typhus', 'lepers', 'cardiac arrest', 'guillotine', 'pernicious anaemia', 'mesothelioma', 'liver', 'pulmonary tuberculosis', 'uterine cancer', 'firing squad']
Vasily Grossman
Vasily Semyonovich Grossman (Russian: Васи́лий Семёнович Гро́ссман, Ukrainian: Василь Семенович Гроссман; 12 December 1905 – 14 September 1964) was a Soviet Russian writer and journalist. Grossman was trained as an engineer and worked in the Donets Basin, but changed his career in the 1930s and published short stories and several novels. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he became a war correspondent for the Red Army newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda, writing firsthand accounts of the battles of Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk and Berlin. Grossman's eyewitness accounts of conditions in a Nazi extermination camp, following the liberation of Treblinka, were among the earliest. Grossman also translated Armenian literature into Russian, despite the fact that (as he writes in 'Dobro Vam!',—the account of a sojourn in Armenia in the early 1960s, during which he worked at the translation of a book by a local writer called Martirosjan) he lacked the ability to read Armenian, and worked on an interlinear translation made for him by a third person. After World War II, Grossman's faith in the Soviet state was shaken by Joseph Stalin's turn towards antisemitism in the final years before his death in 1953. While Grossman was never arrested by the Soviet authorities, his two major literary works (Life and Fate and Forever Flowing) were censored during the ensuing Nikita Khrushchev period as unacceptably anti-Soviet, and Grossman himself became in effect a nonperson. The KGB raided Grossman's flat after he had completed Life and Fate, seizing manuscripts, notes and even the ribbon from the typewriter on which the text had been written. Grossman was told by the Communist Party's chief ideologist Mikhail Suslov that the book could not be published for two or three hundred years. At the time of Grossman's death from stomach cancer in 1964, these books were unreleased. Copies were eventually smuggled out of the Soviet Union by a network of dissidents, including Andrei Sakharov and Vladimir Voinovich, and first published in the West, before appearing in the Soviet Union in 1988.