Masha Cerovic, Les Enfants de Staline. La guerre des partisans soviétiques, 1941-1944
Journal: Histoire Politique
Year: 2022

Elem Klimov’s apocalyptic master piece of 1985 “Come and See” (Requiem pour un massacre in French), one of the very few films about war deserving the epithet “anti,” begins with two ragged boys digging up an abandoned assault rifle in a sandy wasteland, while a German reconnaissance plane, drone-like, passes overhead. Readers of Masha Cerovic’s brilliant new book on the Soviet partisans of the Second World War may be reminded of this scene for several reasons. Most immediately because Klimov’...