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Daytime Stars (Hardcover)
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Daytime Stars (Hardcover)
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For 872 days during World War II, the city of Leningrad endured a
crushing blockade at the hands of German forces. Close to one
million civilians died, most from starvation. Amid the devastation,
Olga Berggolts broadcast her poems on the one remaining radio
station, urging listeners not to lose hope. When the siege had
begun, the country had already endured decades of revolution, civil
war, economic collapse, and Stalin's purges. Berggolts herself
survived the deaths of two husbands and both of her children, her
own arrest, and a stillborn birth after being beaten under
interrogation. Berggolts wrote her memoir Daytime Stars in the
spirit of the thaw after Stalin's death. In it, she celebrated the
ideals of the revolution and the heroism of the Soviet people while
also criticizing censorship of writers and recording her doubts and
despair. This English translation by Lisa A. Kirschenbaum makes
available a unique autobiographical work by an important author of
the Soviet era. In her foreword, Katharine Hodgson comments on
experiences of the Terror about which Berggolts was unable or
unwilling to write.
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