Writing the siege of Leningrad : women's diaries, memoirs, and documentary prose / Cynthia Simmons and Nina Perlina ; with a foreword by Richard Bidlack.
Author
- Simmons, Cynthia 1949- [author]
Series
Other titles
- JSTOR
Edition
- 1st pbk. ed.
Published
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press 2002
Physical description
1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations, maps
ISBN
- 9780822972747
- 0822972743
- 9780822941835
- 082294183X
Notes
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Reproduction available: Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
- Original electronic resource Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary,
- English.
- Available in electronic full text to members of the University via the Library web catalogue.
- Print version record.
Contents
- DIARIES AND LETTERS: Diary of Liubov' Vasil'evna Shaporina, hospital nurse during Siege; later an artist -- Diary of Anna Petrovna Ostroumova-Lebedeva, artist -- Letter from Leningrad: Él'za Greinert to children -- Letter from Leningrad: German family remembered -- Diary and letters of Evgeniia Shavrova, introduced by her sister, Elena Fassman, librarian -- Diary of Vera Sergeevna Kostrovitskaia, ballerina and dance teacher -- Diary of Mariia Viacheslavovna Kropacheva, school teacher -- Diary of Anna Ivanovna Likhacheva, doctor -- Diary of Tamara Petrovna Nekliudova, entertainer at the front -- Ol'ga Mikhailovna Freidenberg, classicist scholar, first woman department chair in a Soviet university, The Race of Life -- MEMOIRS AND ORAL HISTORIES: Vera Vladimirovna Miliutina, artist, Evacuation and The Scottish Album -- Valentina Nikolaevna Gorokhova, doctor, The War, the Blockade, the Military Hospital -- Sof'ia Nikolaevna Buriakova, housewife, A Half-CenturyAgo -- Ol'ga Nikolaevna Grechina, literary scholar, "Saving, I Am Saved" -- Interview with Natal'ia Borisovna Rogova, librarian, archivist -- Interview with Valentina Fedorovna Petrova, archivist -- Oral history of Natal'ia Vladimirovna Stroganova, child during the Siege; later philologist -- Interview with Valentina Il'inishna Bushueva, factory worker -- Avgusta Mikhailovna Saraeva-Bondar', art historian, Silhouettes of Time -- Interview with Kseniia Makianovna Matus, oboist in the Leningrad Symphony -- Yuliia Aronovna Mendeleva, doctor, memoir excerpts from The Defense of Leningrad -- Lilia Solomonovna Frankfurt, librarian, "The Saltykov- Shchedrin National Public Library" -- Interview with Ol'ga Il'inichna Markhaeva, museum researcher, and Ol'ga Anatol'evna Trapitsina-Matveenko, chemist -- DOCUMENTARY PROSE: Elena Oskarovna Martilla, artist, Grave Months for the Blockaded City -- Lidiia Samsonovna Razumovskaia, university student, "To the People" -- Irena L'vovna Dubitskaia, Cold Sun: Stories -- Liudmila Ivanovna Veshenkova, "Sweet Earth" -- Antonina Emel'ianovna Maslovskaia, "Blockade Lullaby" -- Vera Vladimirovna Miliutina, artist, "Vitamins, or Ode to Grass" -- Liubov' Borisovna Beregovaia, The Joyous, the Inimitable.
Subject
- Siege of Saint Petersburg (Russia : 1941-1944)
- Siege of Saint Petersburg (Russia : 1941-1944)
- 1941-1944
- Women in war Russia (Federation) Saint Petersburg.
- HISTORY Europe Western.
- HISTORY General.
- Women.
- Women in war.
- Women in war Russia (Federation) Saint Petersburg.
- Women in war Soviet Union Leningrad
- Women in war Russia Saint Petersburg
- Vrouwen.
- Tweede Wereldoorlog.
- Women in war Russia (Federation) Saint Petersburg
- Saint Petersburg (Russia) History Siege, 1941-1944
- Women.
- Women in war.
- Women
- Women in war
- Erlebnisbericht
- Frau
- Sankt Petersburg Belagerung
- Tagebuch
- Belagerung
- Frau.
- Belagerung.
- Saint Petersburg (Russia) History Siege, 1941-1944 Women.
- Saint Petersburg (Russia) History Siege, 1941-1944 ; Sources.
- Russia (Federation) Saint Petersburg.
- Saint Petersburg (Russia) History Siege, 1941-1944 Women.
- Saint Petersburg (Russia) History Siege, 1941-1944 ; Sources.
- Saint Petersburg (Russia) History Siege, 1941-1944.
- Leningrad (R.S.F.S.R.) Siege, 1941-1944. Women.
- Leningrad (R.S.F.S.R.) Siege, 1941-1944. ; Sources.
- Saint Petersburg (Russia) History Siege, 1941-1944 ; Personal narratives.
- Russia (Federation) Saint Petersburg.
- Russia (Federation) Saint Petersburg
- Sankt Petersburg
- Sankt Petersburg.
Other names
- Perlina, Nina 1939-2019 [author]
- Bidlack, Richard [author of introduction, etc]
- ProQuest (Firm)
Related item
- Print version:: Simmons, Cynthia, 1949- Writing the siege of Leningrad : women's diaries, memoirs, and documentary prose. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2002 xli, 242 pages ; ISBN: 9780822941835
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- Bibliography
- Electronic book.
- Electronic books.
- History.
- Illustrated
- Sources.
- text
Language
- English
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Summary
- Silver Winner, ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year, History From September 1941 until January 1944, Leningrad suffered under one of the worst sieges in the history of warfare. At least one million civilians died, many during the terribly cold first winter. Bearing the brunt of this hardship-and keeping the city alive through their daily toil and sacrifice-were the women of Leningrad. Yet their perspective on life during the siege has been little examined. Cynthia Simmons and Nina Perlina have searched archival holdings for letters and diaries written during the siege, conducted interviews wi.
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