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Besieged Leningrad - Aesthetic Responses to Urban Disaster (Paperback)
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Besieged Leningrad - Aesthetic Responses to Urban Disaster (Paperback)
Series: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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During the 872 days of the Siege of Leningrad (September 1941 to
January 1944), the city's inhabitants were surrounded by the
military forces of Nazi Germany. They suffered famine, cold, and
darkness, and a million people lost their lives, making the siege
one of the most destructive in history. Confinement in the besieged
city was a traumatic experience. Unlike the victims of the
Auschwitz concentration camp, for example, who were brought from
afar and robbed of their cultural roots, the victims of the Siege
of Leningrad were trapped in the city as it underwent a slow,
horrific transformation. They lost everything except their physical
location, which was layered with historical, cultural, and personal
memory. In Besieged Leningrad, Polina Barskova examines how the
city's inhabitants adjusted to their new urban reality, focusing on
the emergence of new spatial perceptions that fostered the
production of diverse textual and visual representations. The
myriad texts that emerged during the siege were varied and
exciting, engendered by sometimes sharply conflicting ideological
urges and aesthetic sensibilities. In this first study of the
cultural and literary representations of spatiality in besieged
Leningrad, Barskova examines a wide range of authors with competing
views of their difficult relationship with the city, filling a gap
in Western knowledge of the culture of the siege. It will appeal to
Russian studies specialists as well as those interested in war
testimonies and the representation of trauma.
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