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Leningrad Diary
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Author : Vera Inber
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Leningrad Diary written by Vera Inber and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Leningrad (R.S.F.S.R.) categories.
The Diary Of Lena Mukhina
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Author : Lena Mukhina
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2015-02-12
The Diary Of Lena Mukhina written by Lena Mukhina and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-12 with Literary Collections categories.
In May 1941 Lena Mukhina was an ordinary teenage girl, living in Leningrad, worrying about her homework and whether Vova - the boy she liked - liked her. Like a good Soviet schoolgirl, she was also diligently learning German, the language of Russia's Nazi ally. And she was keeping a diary, in which she recorded her hopes and dreams. Then, on 22 June 1941, Hitler broke his pact with Stalin and declared war on the Soviet Union. All too soon, Leningrad was besieged and life became a living hell. Lena and her family fought to stay alive; their city was starving and its citizens were dying in their hundreds of thousands. From day to dreadful day, Lena records her experiences: the desperate hunt for food, the bitter cold of the Russian winter and the cruel deaths of those she loved. A truly remarkable account of this most terrible era in modern history, The Diary of Lena Mukhina is the vivid first-hand testimony of a courageous young woman struggling simply to survive.
Misha And His Leningrad Diary
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Author : Evelina De Gelmont
language : en
Publisher: Xulon Press
Release Date : 2008-06
Misha And His Leningrad Diary written by Evelina De Gelmont and has been published by Xulon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is the story of Misha, a young Russian boy who survived the siege of Leningrad by Nazi Germany during World War II. For 900 days (1941-1944) three million Leningraders endured starvation, lack of water, electricity, and fuel, living on one small piece of bread per day and subjected to endless air raids and bombardments. Cold and starvation destroyed over one million lives. The focal point of the book is based on the events detailed in Misha's diary. The remainder describes the historical context and impact of the blockade, and the survivor's life story. The book is intended as a tribute to the human spirit. Evelina was born in Russia in 1934. She worked as an engineer in Lvov, Ukraine for many years. It was there that she married Misha. After her husband died prematurely, Evelina decided to emigrate to America. She settled in Minnesota and found a job as an engineer. It was in America that Evelina became a Christian and married a minister. For many years she had an unshakeable determination to write this book, a biography of her beloved husband. Even as she struggled with cancer, which eventually took her life, finishing the book remained one of her top concerns. Although she never saw it published, her hope was that one day many people would be inspired by her husband's great zeal for life. In Misha's own words, "I have just now realized what life means to me. Life is a great gift given to us; it is not always lived properly."
The War Within
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Author : Alexis Peri
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2017-01-02
The War Within written by Alexis Peri and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-02 with History categories.
Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize Winner of the AATSEEL Book Prize Winner of the University of Southern California Book Prize Honorable Mention, Reginald Zelnik Book Prize “Stand aside, Homer. I doubt whether even the author of the Iliad could have matched Alexis Peri’s account of the 872-day siege which Leningrad endured.” —Jonathan Mirsky, The Spectator “Fascinating and perceptive.” —Antony Beevor, New York Review of Books “Powerful and illuminating...A fascinating, insightful, and nuanced work.” —Anna Reid, Times Literary Supplement “A sensitive, at times almost poetic examination.” —Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs In September 1941, two and a half months after the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, the German Wehrmacht encircled Leningrad. Cut off from the rest of Russia, the city remained blockaded for 872 days, at a cost of almost a million civilian lives. It was one of the longest and deadliest sieges in modern history. The War Within chronicles the Leningrad blockade from the perspective of those who endured it. Drawing on unpublished diaries written by men and women from all walks of life, Alexis Peri tells the tragic story of how young and old struggled to make sense of a world collapsing around them. When the blockade was lifted in 1944, Kremlin officials censored publications describing the ordeal and arrested many of Leningrad’s wartime leaders. Some were executed. Diaries—now dangerous to their authors—were concealed in homes, shelved in archives, and forgotten. The War Within recovers these lost accounts, shedding light on one of World War II’s darkest episodes while paying tribute the resilience of the human spirit.
A Leningrad Diary
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Author : Elena Skrjabina
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2009-07-30
A Leningrad Diary written by Elena Skrjabina and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-30 with categories.
Elena Skrjabina's struggle to survive World War II began in1941, with the blockade of Leningrad, which she describes in a previously published portion of her diary, Siege and Survival: The Odyssey of a Leningrader. Skrjabina, her two sons, and her mother followed a trail of terror across the ice of Lake Ladoga, endured hunger, bombs, and Arctic cold before finding safety in Pyatigorsk. The present diary begins August 9, 1942, the night a German invasion transformed Pyatigorsk into an inferno. When the Red Army soldiers returned, the Skrjabinas and thousands of other Russians retreated with the routed Germans. This powerful and shocking diary tells the chilling tale of the little known, carefully suppressed Russian side of World War II.
After Leningrad
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Author : Elena Skrjabina
language : en
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Release Date : 1988-01-01
After Leningrad written by Elena Skrjabina and has been published by Transaction Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-01-01 with History categories.
This second volume in the odyssey of a Leningrader who escaped the siege continues here from the point of this remarkable observer's evacuation from the city. It tells of her nomadic wandering to the Caucasus and later to the Rhine, in an "unadorned but eloquent prose that is remarkably affecting" (Publisher's Weekly). After Leningrad begins August 9, 1942, the night a German army invaded Pyatigorsk, the city to which she and her family had escaped across the ice of Lake Lagoda, a harrowing tale concluding the first volume of this series. After surviving the inferno created by the Germans, the Skrjabinas and thousands of other Russians endured the return of the Red Army five months later, which had been ordered to shoot all males between the ages of 16 and 55. To escape this vengeance, the Russians retreated with the routed German army. This diary recreates that massive retreat, ending at a forced labor camp in Bendorf, Germany, from which deliverance came only at the end of the war in Europe.
Writing The Siege Of Leningrad
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Author : Cynthia Simmons
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Release Date : 2003-03-15
Writing The Siege Of Leningrad written by Cynthia Simmons and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Pre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-03-15 with History categories.
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 with survivors, and collected poetry, fiction, and retrospective memoirs written by the blokadnitsy (women survivors) to present a truer picture of the city under siege. In simple, direct, even heartbreaking language, these documents tell of lost husbands, mothers, children; meager rations often supplemented with sawdust and other inedible additives; crime, cruelty, and even cannibalism. They also relate unexpected acts of kindness and generosity; attempts to maintain cultural life through musical and dramatic performances; and provide insight into a group of ordinary women reaching beyond differences in socioeconomic class, ethnicity, and profession in order to survive in extraordinary times.
Blockade Diary
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Author : Elena Kockina
language : en
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Release Date : 2014-11-04
Blockade Diary written by Elena Kockina and has been published by Harry N. Abrams this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
BlockadeDiary is a firstperson account of the Siege of Leningrad from1941-1942 where over a millioncivilians died.
Blockade Diary
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Author : Lidii︠a︡ Ginzburg
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1995
Blockade Diary written by Lidii︠a︡ Ginzburg and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A fictionalized account of the 900-day siege of Leningrad during World War II, describing the day-to-day business of finding something to eat while avoiding bombs and shells. The siege cost 600,000 lives.
Leningrad Diary
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Author : Vera Inber
language : en
Publisher: Hutchinson
Release Date : 1971
Leningrad Diary written by Vera Inber and has been published by Hutchinson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with History categories.