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Leningrad 1941-42 - Morality in a City Under Siege (Hardcover)
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Leningrad 1941-42 - Morality in a City Under Siege (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R466
Discovery Miles 4 660
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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 "Time
of Death", the harsh winter of 1941-42, Sergey Yarov adopts a new
approach, demonstrating that if we are to truly appreciate the
nature of this suffering, we must face the full realities of
people's actions and behaviour. Many of the documents published
here letters, diaries, memoirs and interviews not previously
available to researchers or retrieved from family archives show
unexpected aspects of what it was like to live in the besieged
city. Leningrad changed, and so did the morals, customs and habits
of Leningraders. People wanted at all costs to survive. Their notes
about the siege reflect a drama which cost a million people their
lives. There is no spurious cheeriness and optimism in them, and
much that we might like to pass over. But we must not. We have a
duty to know the whole, bitter truth about the siege, the price
that had to be paid in order to stay human in a time of brutal
inhumanity.
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