Blockade Diary
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Blockade Diary
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Author : Lidii︠a︡ Ginzburg
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1995
Blockade Diary written by Lidii︠a︡ Ginzburg and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A fictionalized account of the 900-day siege of Leningrad during World War II, describing the day-to-day business of finding something to eat while avoiding bombs and shells. The siege cost 600,000 lives.
Blockade Diary
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Author : Elena Kochina
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Blockade Diary written by Elena Kochina and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with History categories.
The Legacy Of The Siege Of Leningrad 1941 1995
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Author : Lisa A. Kirschenbaum
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-10-19
The Legacy Of The Siege Of Leningrad 1941 1995 written by Lisa A. Kirschenbaum and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-19 with History categories.
The siege of Leningrad constituted one of the most dramatic episodes of World War II, one that individuals and the state began to commemorate almost immediately. Official representations of 'heroic Leningrad' omitted and distorted a great deal. Nonetheless, survivors struggling to cope with painful memories often internalized, even if they did not completely accept, the state's myths, and they often found their own uses for the state's monuments. Tracing the overlap and interplay of individual memories and fifty years of Soviet mythmaking, this book contributes to understandings of both the power of Soviet identities and the delegitimizing potential of the Soviet Union's chief legitimizing myths. Because besieged Leningrad blurred the boundaries between the largely male battlefront and the predominantly female home front, it offers a unique vantage point for a study of the gendered dimensions of the war experience, urban space, individual memory, and public commemoration.
Leningrad
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Author : Anna Reid
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-01-01
Leningrad written by Anna Reid and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with History categories.
When Hitler attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941, he intended to capture Leningrad before turning on Moscow. Soviet resistance forced him to change tactics: with his forward troops only thirty kilometres from the city's historic centre, he decided instead to starve it out. Using newly available diaries and government records, Anna Reid describes a city's descent into hell - the breakdown of electricity and water supply; subzero temperatures; the consumption of pets, joiner's glue and face cream; the dead left unburied where they fell - but also the extraordinary endurance, bravery and self-sacrifice, despite the cruelty and indifference of the Kremlin.
Sunlight At Midnight
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Author : Bruce Lincoln
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-04-28
Sunlight At Midnight written by Bruce Lincoln and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-28 with History categories.
For Russians, St. Petersburg has embodied power, heroism, and fortitude. It has encompassed all the things that the Russians are and that they hope to become. Opulence and artistic brilliance blended with images of suffering on a monumental scale make up the historic persona of the late W. Bruce Lincoln's lavish "biography" of this mysterious, complex city. Climate and comfort were not what Tsar Peter the Great had in mind when, in the spring of 1703, he decided to build a new capital in the muddy marshes of the Neva River delta. Located 500 miles below the Arctic Circle, this area, with its foul weather, bad water, and sodden soil, was so unattractive that only a handful of Finnish fisherman had ever settled there. Bathed in sunlight at midnight in the summer, it brooded in darkness at noon in the winter, and its canals froze solid at least five months out of every year. Yet to the Tsar, the place he named Sankt Pieter Burkh had the makings of a "paradise." His vision was soon borne out: though St. Petersburg was closer to London, Paris, and Vienna than to Russia's far-off eastern lands, it quickly became the political, cultural, and economic center of an empire that stretched across more than a dozen time zones and over three continents. In this book, revolutionaries and laborers brush shoulders with tsars, and builders, soldiers, and statesmen share pride of place with poets. For only the entire historical experience of this magnificent and mysterious city can reveal the wealth of human and natural forces that shaped the modern history of it and the nation it represents.
Notes From The Blockade
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Author : Lydia Ginzburg
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-05-31
Notes From The Blockade written by Lydia Ginzburg and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The 900-day siege of Leningrad (1941-44) was one of the turning points of the Second World War. It slowed down the German advance into Russia and became a national symbol of survival and resistance. An estimated one million civilians died, most of them from cold and starvation. Lydia Ginzburg, a respected literary scholar (who meanwhile wrote prose 'for the desk drawer' through seven decades of Soviet rule), survived. Using her own using notes and sketches she wrote during the siege, along with conversations and impressions collected over the years, she distilled the collective experience of life under siege. Through painful depiction of the harrowing conditions of that period, Ginzburg created a paean to the dignity, vitality and resilience of the human spirit. This original translation by Alan Myers has been revised and annotated by Emily van Buskirk. This edition includes ‘A Story of Pity and Cruelty’, a recently discovered documentary narrative translated into English for the first time by Angela Livingstone.
From Betty Crocker To Feminist Food Studies
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Author : Arlene Voski Avakian
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
From Betty Crocker To Feminist Food Studies written by Arlene Voski Avakian and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Cooking categories.
Sheds light on the history of food, cooking, and eating. This collection of essays investigates the connections between food studies and women's studies. From women in colonial India to Armenian American feminists, these essays show how food has served as a means to assert independence and personal identity.
The Second World War Diary Of Hugh Dalton 1940 45
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Author : Hugh Dalton Baron Dalton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
The Second World War Diary Of Hugh Dalton 1940 45 written by Hugh Dalton Baron Dalton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Great Britain categories.
"Hugh Dalton, Etonian Labour politician, was widely disliked by right-wingers, and with good reason. Not only was he a champion of socialist causes and, in their terms, a class traitor. He was also a pricker of pomposities, a ruthless debunker or the reactionary and the rich. Had they known about his diary, they would have disliked him all the more. ... This volume, the first of two, covers Dalton's period as a prominent minister during the Churchill Coalition."--Jacket.
World Literature Today
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
World Literature Today written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Bibliography categories.
The War Within
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Author : Alexis Peri
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2017-01-02
The War Within written by Alexis Peri and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-02 with History categories.
The German blockade of Leningrad lasted 872 days and cost almost a million civilian lives—one of the longest, deadliest sieges in modern history. Drawing on 125 unpublished diaries written by individuals from all walks of life, Alexis Peri tells the tragic, intimate story of how citizens struggled to make sense of a world collapsing around them.