Babi Yar

work by Kuznetsov
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Also known as: “Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel”
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Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel

Babi Yar, prose work by Anatoly Kuznetsov, published serially as Babi Yar in 1966. This first edition, issued in the Soviet Union, was heavily censored. A complete, authorized edition, restoring censored portions and including further additions to the text by the author, was published under the pseudonym A. Anatoli in both Russian and English in 1970. An account of the horrors and injustices that the author witnessed during the brutal Nazi occupation of Kiev from 1941 to 1944, the work is a scathing condemnation of both Nazi and Soviet policies toward Ukraine in that period. The book is notable for ...(100 of 136 words)