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A bilingual selection of poems by the Soviet writer Ilya Ehrenburg (1891–1967), one of the most prolific Russian writers of the twentieth-century.

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Ilya Ehrenburg (1891–1967) was one of the most prolific Russian writers of the twentieth-century. He wrote nearly a hundred books, including The Extraordinary Adventures of Julio Jurenito and His Disciples, Life of the Automobile, The Fall of Paris and The Storm. He served as a Russian war correspondent in France during World War I and later covered the Spanish Civil War for Izvestia. During World War II his outspoken columns won him a huge following among Red Army soldiers – and the personal enmity of Hitler, who sought his capture and execution. Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman also edited The Black Book of Soviet Jewry, documenting the Holocaust in Nazioccupied Soviet territory. His 1954 novel The Thaw gave its name to the Khrushchev years in the Soviet Union. His memoir People, Years, Life provocatively tested the limits of Soviet censorship by championing the work of old friends like Marina Tsvetaeva, Isaac Babel, and OsipMandelstam. Anna Krushelnitskaya’s translations have been featured in Poems From the Front: A Moscow Anthology (Moscow, 2020); Disbelief: 100 Russian Anti-War Poems (Smokestack, 2022); Dislocation: An Anthology of Poetic Response to Russia’s War in Ukraine (Slavica, 2024) and Cold War Casual (2019), a bilingual collection of interviews delving into the effect of propaganda on both sides of the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.

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