Writing the siege of Leningrad : women's diaries, memoirs, and documentary prose / Cynthia Simmons and Nina Perlina ; with a foreword by Richard Bidlack.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simmons, Cynthia, 1949- author.

Perlina, Nina, 1939- author.

Bidlack, Richard, author of introduction, etc.

Series:

Series in Russian and East European studies.

Pitt series in Russian and East European Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in war--Russia (Federation)--Saint Petersburg.

Women in war.

Saint Petersburg (Russia)--History--Siege, 1941-1944--Women.

Saint Petersburg (Russia).

Saint Petersburg (Russia)--History--Siege, 1941-1944--Sources.

Genre:

Sources

History

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822972747

0822972743

OCLC:

882265053