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Leningrad
Throughout much of this century, cities around the world have sought to gain control over their urban destinies through concerted government action. Nowhere has this process of state intervention gone further than in the Soviet Union. This volume explores the ways in which local and regional political, economic, and cultural leaders in Leningrad determine the physical and socioeconomic contours of their city and region within such a centralized economic and political environment. The author examines four major policy initiatives that have emerged in Leningrad since the 1950s—physical planning innovations, integrated scientific-production associations, vocational education reform, and socio...
Shurik
A Russian actress and nurse tells of her experience caring for an orphan boy during part of the three-year siege of Leningrad.
The Last Heroes of Leningrad
Alexandra Wachter investigates how survivors of the Siege of Leningrad (1941–44) were able to come to terms with their memories in Soviet and post-Soviet society. Subject to political fluctuations, official remembrance ranged from enforced silence to extensive exploitation for propaganda purposes, a framework which corresponded with psychological strategies to cope, but not deal, with trauma: repression, denial, acting-out and idealization. Based on a combination of oral history interviews, ethnographic and archival research, this study examines narratives and activities of child and adolescent survivors. Individual experiences are related to varying degrees of involvement in survivors’ organisations, and thick description adds to the understanding of trauma in the context of a (post-)totalitarian society.
Leningrad 1941 - 42
This book recounts one of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century: the siege of Leningrad. It is based on the searing testimony of eyewitnesses, some of whom managed to survive, while others were to die in streets devastated by bombing, in icy houses, or the endless bread queues. All of them, nevertheless, wanted to pass on to us the story of the torments they endured, their stoicism, compassion and humanity, and of how people reached out to each other in the nightmare of the siege. Though the siege continues to loom large in collective memory, an overemphasis on the heroic endurance of the victims has tended to distort our understanding of events. In this book, which focuses on the ...
Leningrad 1941 - 42
This book recounts one of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century: the siege of Leningrad. It is based on the searing testimony of eyewitnesses, some of whom managed to survive, while others were to die in streets devastated by bombing, in icy houses, or the endless bread queues. All of them, nevertheless, wanted to pass on to us the story of the torments they endured, their stoicism, compassion and humanity, and of how people reached out to each other in the nightmare of the siege. Though the siege continues to loom large in collective memory, an overemphasis on the heroic endurance of the victims has tended to distort our understanding of events. In this book, which focuses on the ...
Leningrad Diary
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Leningrad 1943
Le 10 août 1941, les armées allemandes lancent l’offensive finale sur Leningrad. Moins d’un mois plus tard, la ville est encerclée. Pendant 872 jours – le siège le plus long de l’histoire moderne –, seule la « route de la vie », passant par le lac Ladoga gelé, permet l’approvisionnement, du reste très insuffisant, des Léningradois, qui souffrent de la faim et du froid. Alexander Werth, correspondant de guerre britannique, offre de cette tragédie un témoignage exceptionnel qui retrace la défense de la ville par ses habitants et raconte les stratégies de survie quotidiennes cachées derrière les mots « héroïsme » et « patriotisme ». Alexander Werth (1901-1969), journaliste et historien britannique d’origine russe, est l’auteur d’une quinzaine d’ouvrages remarqués sur la Russie soviétique et sur la France de l’entre-deux-guerres, en particulier, La Russie en guerre (« Texto », 2011) et Moscou, 1941 (Tallandier, 2012). Traduit de l’anglais par Evelyne et Nicolas Werth. Présenté par Nicolas Werth.
Siege and Survival
When the 900-day siege of Leningrad was finally lifted and the gaunt, brave survivors had basked a bit in the fitful spring sunshine, the Soviet government made one of its rare graceful gestures to these heroic people. It awarded to the survivors (and to some who did not) the Medal for Defense of Leningrad. So far as I know it played no favorites in this. Those who had chanced to come through alive got the medal (many of them to their great surprise). In all more than 300,000 medals were passed out-- and it may sound like a very large total. But when you consider the fact that something like 3,300,000 persons were trapped within the siege lines when the long blockade began on September 8, 19...
