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The Siege of Leningrad (1941-1944)

Documents and Scholarly Research

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

In English:

 

Barber, John, and Andrei Rostislavovich Dzeniskevich, eds. Life and Death in Besieged Leningrad, 1941-44. Studies in Russian and East European History and Society. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Bidlack, Richard, and Nikita Lomagin. The Leningrad Blockade, 1941-1944: A New Documentary History from the Soviet Archives. Annals of Communism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.

Glantz, David M. The Battle for Leningrad: 1941-1944. Modern War Studies. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002.

Jones, Michael K. Leningrad: State of Siege. London: John Murray, 2008.

Iarov, Sergei. Leningrad, 1941-42: Morality in a City under Siege. Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA: Polity, 2017.

Kirschenbaum, Lisa A. The Legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1995: Myth, Memories, and Monuments. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Pleysier, Albert Jan. Frozen Tears: The Blockade and Battle of Leningrad. Lanham, Md: University Press of America, 2008.

Reid, Anna. Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944. 1st U.S. ed. New York: Walker & Co, 2011.

Walton, C. S. The Besieged: A Story of Survival. London: Biteback Pub, 2011.

 

In Russian

Gennadii Sobolev reviews many recent publications in his article: Blokada Leningrada: ot novykh istochnikov k novomu ponimaniiu [Leningrad Siege: from the new sources to the new comprehension]. Noveishaia istoriia Rossii. 2012, no. 3 (5), pp. 70-96. “Author analyzes the difficult process of source publication on history of the Leningrad defense and the Leningrad siege during the whole period of problems’ study. Special attention is drawn to the recently published documents.” 

Full text of Sovolev's article is available at CyberLeninka.

 

Blokada v resheniiakh rukovodiashchikh partiinykh organov Leningrada. 1941-1944 gg. Part 1 and Part 2. SPb: Izdatelstvo SPbGU, 2019. 863 p. Available online.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bitva za Leningrad: diskussionnye problemy po materialam mezhdunarodnoi nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii “Blokada Leningrada spornoe i besspornoe”, sentiabrʹ 2007 goda. Sankt-Peterburg: Evropeiskii Dom, 2009. 309 p.

Chistikov, A. N., Elizaveta Shelaeva, and D. V. Mitiurin, eds. Leningrad v gody Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny, 1941-1945. Sankt-Peterburg: Liki Rossii, 2016. 359 p.

Iarov, Sergei. Blokadnaia etika: predstavleniia o morali v Leningrade v 1941-1942 gg. Sankt-Peterburg: Nestor-Istoriia, 2011. 595 p.

​Iarov, Sergei. Povsednevnaia zhiznʹ blokadnogo Leningrada. Zhivaia istoriia. Povsednevnaia zhiznʹ chelovechestva. Moskva: Molodaia gvardiia, 2013. 310 p.

Ignatʹev, P. V., ed. Leningrad. Voina. Blokada: Doroga zhizni. Materialy i issledovaniia. Sankt-Peterburg: Galart, 2018. 387 p.

Ilʹin, Evgenii, and Sankt-Peterburgskii gosudarstvennyi universitet, eds. Bitva za Leningrad: Problemy sovremennykh issledovanii: sbornik statei. Sankt-Peterburg: Izd-vo SPbGU, 2007. 370 p. 

Izmailov, A. F. Nepokorennnye blokadoi: dokumentalʹnye ocherki. Sankt-Peterburg: Gangut, 2017. 256 p.

Komarov, N., and Georgii Aleksandrovich Kumanev. Blokada Leningrada: 900 geroicheskikh dnei: 1941-1944: istoricheskii dnevnik, kommentarii. Moskva: Olma-Press, 2004. 571 p.

Kovalʹchuk, V. M. 900 dnei blokady: Leningrad 1941-1944. Sankt-Peterburg: D. Bulanin, 2005. 234 p.

Kovalʹchuk, V. M., ed. Chelovek v blokade: novye svidetelʹstva. Sankt-Peterburg: Ostrov, 2008. 271 p.

Kovalʹchuk, V. M., and A. N. Chistikov. Leningrad i leningradtsy v gody blokady. Sankt-Peterburg: Liki Rossii, 2012. 258 p.

Kovalʹchuk, V. M., A. N. Chistikov, and Sankt-Peterburgskii institut istorii (RAN), eds. Leningrad v gody Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny: ocherki, dokumenty, fotografii. Sankt-Peterburg: Izdatelʹsko-poligraficheskii servisnyi tsentr, 2005. 237 p.

​Lomagin, Nikita. Leningrad v blokade. Moskva: Ėksmo : IAuza, 2005. 536 p.

Lomagin, Nikita. Neizvestnaia blokada. Sankt-Peterburg : Moskva: Neva ; OLMA-Press, 2002. vol. 1-2.

Lomagin, Nikita. V tiskakh goloda: blokada Leningrada v dokumentakh germanskikh spetssluzhb, NKVD i pisʹmakh leningradtsev. Izd. 2-e, dopolnennoe i rasshirennoe. Sankt-Peterburg: Avrora-dizain, 2014. 358 p.

Piankevich, V. L. Liudi zhili slukhami: neformalʹnoe kommunikativnoe prostranstvo blokadnogo Leningrada. Sankt-Peterburg: Vladimir Dalʹ, 2014. 478 p.

Sobolev, Gennadii Leontʹevich. Leningrad v borʹbe za vyzhivanie v blokade. Istoriia. Sankt-Peterburg: Izdatelʹstvo Peterburgskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta, 2013. vol. 1-3.

Sulʹdin, A. V. Blokada Leningrada: polnaia khronika--875 dnei i nochei. Seriia “Khroniki Rossii.” Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo AST, 2015. 190 p.

Tuchapskii, A. K., and A. R. Sokolov, eds. Leningrad v kolʹtse blokady: grif sekretnosti sniat: sbornik dokumentov. Sankt-Peterburg: Fond “Kreativ,” 2014. 638 p.

Volkovskii, N., ed. Blokada Leningrada v dokumentakh rassekrechennykh arkhivov. Voenno-istoricheskaia biblioteka. Moskva : Sankt-Peterburg: AST ; Poligon, 2004. 766 p.

Voronina, Tatʹiana. Pomnitʹ po-nashemu: sotsrealisticheskii istorizm i blokada Leningrada. Moskva: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2018. 272 p.