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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: war within
    sub title: diaries from the Siege of Leningrad
  name:
    name part: Peri, Alexis
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xviii, 337 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
  abstract: In September 1941, two-and-a-half months after the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, the German Wehrmacht encircled Leningrad. Cut off from the rest of Russia, the city remained blockaded for 872 days, at a cost of almost a million civilian lives, making it one of the longest and deadliest sieges in modern history. The War Within chronicles the Leningrad blockade from the perspective of those who endured the unendurable. Drawing on 125 unpublished diaries written by individuals from all walks of Soviet life, Alexis Peri tells the tragic story of how citizens struggled to make sense of a world collapsing around them. Residents recorded in intimate detail the toll taken on minds and bodies by starvation, bombardment and disease. For many, diary writing became instrumental to survival, a tangible reminder of their humanity. The journals also reveal that Leningraders began to reexamine Soviet life and ideology from new, often critical perspectives. Leningrad's party organization encouraged diary writing, hoping the texts would guide future histories of this epic battle. But in a bitter twist, the diarists became victims not only of Hitler but also of Stalin. The city's isolation from Moscow made it politically suspect. When the blockade was lifted in 1944, Kremlin officials censored publications describing the ordeal and arrested hundreds of Leningrad's wartime leaders. Many were executed. Diaries, now dangerous to their authors, were concealed in homes, shelved in archives and forgotten. The War Within recovers these lost narratives, shedding light on one of World War II's darkest episodes.
  table of contents: Introduction: Year zero -- Part I. Inside the ring: The ring takes shape -- Becoming new people -- The elusive I -- Family life and strife -- Part II. Exploring the island: The hierarchy of lives -- The city as medical laboratory -- In the mirror of history -- Conclusion: After the ring broke.
  note: Alexis Peri.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-ru---
  subject:
    geographic: Saint Petersburg (Russia)
    topic: History
    temporal: Siege, 1941-1944
    genre: Personal narratives, Russian
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    geographic: Russia (Federation)
    geographic: Saint Petersburg
    genre: Personal narratives, Russian
  subject:
    topic: Russians
    genre: Diaries
  classification: D764.3.L4 P46 2017
  classification: 940.54/217210922
  identifier: 9780674971554
  identifier: 0674971558
  identifier: 2016018187
  record info:
    record content source: MH/DLC
    record creation date: 160505
    record change date: 20170926152043.0
    record identifier: in00003711067