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The Legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1995: Myth, Memories, and Monuments

By Lisa A. Kirschenbaum

Book information

Year
2006
ISBN
0521863260, 9780521863261, 9780511250644
LCC
D764.3.L4 .K548 2006
Open Library ID
OL22739836M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3564171 bytes)
Pages
326\327
Topic
History
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Исторические дисциплины;История России;Новейшая ис

Description

The siege of Leningrad constituted one of the most dramatic episodes of World War II, one that individuals and the state began to commemorate almost immediately. Official representations of "heroic Leningrad" omitted and distorted a great deal. Nonetheless, survivors struggling to cope with painful memories often internalized, even if they did not completely accept, the state's myths, and they often found their own uses for the state's monuments. Tracing the overlap and interplay of individual memories and fifty years of Soviet mythmaking, this book contributes to understandings of both the power of Soviet identities and the delegitimizing potential of the Soviet Union's chief legitimizing myths. Because besieged Leningrad blurred the boundaries between the largely male battlefront and the predominantly female home front, it offers a unique vantage point for a study of the gendered dimensions of the war experience, urban space, individual memory, and public commemoration.

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