Everything Flows is Vasily Grossman’s final testament, written after the Soviet authorities suppressed his masterpiece, Life and Fate. The main story is simple: released after thirty years in the Soviet camps, Ivan Grigoryevich must struggle to find a place for himself in an unfamiliar world. At one point, a short play interrupts the narrative: a series of informers steps forward, each making excuses for the inexcusable things that he did—inexcusable and yet, the informers plead, in Stalinist Russia understandable, almost unavoidable. At the core of the book, we find the story of Anna Sergeyevna, who tells about her eager involvement as an activist in the Terror famine of 1932–33, which led to the deaths of three to five million Ukrainian peasants.
The World Socialist Web Site has published reviews of two recent editions of Grossman’s monumental trilogy, Stalingrad, Life and Fate, and The People Immortal, as well as an extensive interview with translator Robert Chandler.
Read the WSWS review: The People Immortal
Read the WSWS review: Stalingrad
You might also be interested in the writings of Vadim Rogovin.
