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The Siege of Leningrad (1941-1944)

Personal Narratives

Call number: Saint Petersburg (Russia)--History--Siege, 1941-1944--Personal narratives.

IN ENGLISH

Surviving the blockade of Leningrad 

Svetlana Magayeva, Albert Pleysier ; translated into English and edited by Alexey Vinogradov.

Lanham, MD : University Press of America, 2006. 123 p.

 

 

The war within : diaries from the Siege of Leningrad  

Alexis Peri.

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017. 337 p.

 

 

The diary of Lena Mukhina : a girl's life in the siege of Leningrad  by Elena Mukhina ;

edited and with a foreword by Valentin Kovalchuk, Aleksandr Rupasov and Aleksandr Chistikov ;

translated by Amanda Love Darragh.

London : Macmillan, 2015. 390 p.

 

Writing the siege of Leningrad : women's diaries, memoirs, and documentary prose 

Cynthia Simmons and Nina Perlina ; with a foreword by Richard Bidlack. 

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002. 242 p.

 

 

Unlocked memories : young Russians under German rule 

Alexey Vinogradov, Albert Pleysier.

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 2011. 137 p.

 

 

IN RUSSIAN

Adamovich, Alesʹ, and Daniil Granin. Blokadnaia kniga. Azbuka, 2017. 605 p. (Unabridged version)

Azadovskii, Konstantin. «Inogda stanovitsia nevynosimo…» Pis'ma blokadnoi zimy. Zvezda, 2020, #1.

Barskova, Polina, editor. Blokada: svidetelʹstva o Leningradskoi blokade: khrestomatiia. Fond “Kulʹtura detstva” : Izdatelʹskii proekt “A i B,” 2017. 270 p.

Barskova, Polina, and Riccardo Nicolosi, editors. Blokadnye narrativy: sbornik statei. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2017. 330 p.

Berggolʹts, Olʹga, and Nataliia Sokolovskaia. Olʹga, zapretnyi dnevnik: dnevniki, pisʹma, proza, izbrannye stikhotvoreniia i poemy Olʹgi Berggolʹts. Azbuka, 2011. 539 p.

Bernev, Stanislav and Chernov, Sergei, editors. Blokadnye dnevniki i dokumenty. Evropeiskii Dom, 2004. 507 p.

Dobrotvorskaia, Karina. Blokadnye devochki. Moskva: Novoe izdatelʹstvo, 2013. 125 p.

Elʹiashova, Liudmila. Moi blokadnyi universitet. 2-e izd., dop. Sankt-Peterburg: Nestor-Istoriia, 2011. 133 p.

Ginzburg, Lidiia. Zapiski blokadnogo cheloveka: vospominaniia. E, 2018. 636 p.

Glezerov, Sergei, editor. Blokada glazami ochevidtsev: dnevniki i vospominaniia. Ostrov, 2012. Vol. 1-6.

Kovalʹchuk, V. M., editor. Chelovek v blokade: novye svidetelʹstva. Ostrov, 2008. 271 p.

Kovalʹchuk, V. M., editor. “IA ne sdamsia do poslednego...”: zapiski iz blokadnogo Leningrada. Nestor-Istoriia, 2010. 209 p.

Loskutova, M. V., and Evropeiskii universitet v Sankt-Peterburge, editors. Pamiatʹ o blokade: svidetelʹstva ochevidtsev i istoricheskoe soznanie obshchestva. Novoe izd-vo, 2006. 387 p.

Maslova, A. N., P. L. Vakhtina, and M. K. Svichenskaia, eds. Publichnaia biblioteka v gody voĭny, 1941-1945: Dnevniki, vospominaniia, pisʹma, dokumenty. Sankt-Peterburg: Rossiiskaia natsionalʹnaia biblioteka, 2005. 576 p.

Mukhina, Elena Vladimirovna. “Sokhrani moiu pechalʹnuiu istoriiu-- ”: blokadnyĭ dnevnik Leny Mukhinoi ; [Avtor vstup. statʹi S.V. IArov ; otv. redaktor V.M. Kovalʹchuk]. Azbuka, 2011. 361 p.

Muravʹeva, I. A., eds. Leningradtsy: blokadnye dnevniki iz fondov Gosudarstvennogo memorialʹnogo muzeia oborony i blokady Leningrada. Sankt-Peterburg: Izdatelʹskaia gruppa “Lenizdat” : Gosudarstvennyĭ memorialʹnyĭ muzeĭ oborony i blokady Leningrada, 2014. 635 p.

Roskina, Irina. Pis'ma voennykh let (e-publication). "The book contains the original letters exchanged between members of a Leningrad-Moscow intelligentsia family. Caught during the war in different places, they tell each other about themselves, and thus, as far as possible in view of censorship, about different aspects of everyday life of those years"

Velikotnaia, T. K., et al., editors. Zapiski ostavsheisia v zhivykh: blokadnye dnevniki Tatʹiany Velikotnoi, Very Berkhman, Iriny Zelenskoi. Izdatelʹskaia gruppa “Lenizdat,” 2014. 510 p.

Bitva za Leningrad : v sudʹbakh zhitelei goroda i oblasti : vospominaniia zashchitnikov i zhitelei blokadnogo goroda i okkupirovannykh territorii / sostaviteli A.V. Vinogradov, A. Pleizhser. SPb : Izd. S.-Peterburgskogo universiteta, 2005. 372 p.