The original translation by Robert Chandler, updated and revised. "War and Peace" of the twentieth century, a comprehensive portrait of an era and a poignant vision of Stalinist Russia, is also the story of a family, the Shaposhnikovs, whose lives are depicted in a striking manner from their darkest to their most poetic moments, encompassing the military, the Gulag, a physics institute, a power plant, and a concentration camp. Classified by Soviet authorities as so dangerous that the manuscript was immediately confiscated upon its completion in 1960, Grossman's masterpiece was eventually smuggled to the West and published in 1980. The Vintage Classic Russians Series: Published to mark the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution of 1917, these are essential, beautifully designed editions of six epic masterpieces that have endured controversy, censorship, and repression to influence decades of thought and artistic expression.