First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM
Historian Catherine Merridale chronicles the tortuous gestation of Vasily Grossman's Soviet masterpiece Stalingrad through the tortuous process of state censorship & interference. Show more
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Historian Catherine Merridale chronicles the tortuous journey of Vasily Grossman’s novel STALINGRAD to print. Victory over the Nazi’s brought neither freedom or truth. Show more
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Historian Catherine Merridale chronicles the tortuous publication of Vasily Grossman’s novel STALINGRAD. By 1949 the novel was finished but Grossman's nightmare was just beginning. Show more
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM
Historian Catherine Merridale chronicles the troubled journey to print of Vasily Grossman’s novel STALINGRAD. By 1951 revisions ran into 1000s of pages, would it ever see print? Show more
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM
Historian Catherine Merridale concludes her chronicle of the tortuous journey of Vasily Grossman’s novel STALINGRAD to print. Now published in 1953 it is savagely attacked. Show more
