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grossman is of course a believer in 'totalitarianism' as an framework for understanding both nazism & stalinism but it's hard for me to read his descriptions of the holocaust and also properly stomach chandler's introductory assertion that the work "establishes the identity of nazism and soviet communism." but i guess we will see what grossman thinks as we go on.

"In the end he talked and argued himself into another journey at government expense to Tashkent. There he stayed, marvelling at the power of geographical arguments in a theoretical discussion [...]"

comme ça on commence...