Surviving the Blockade of Leningrad

by Svetlana Magayeva, Albert Pleysier

Overview

In 1941 German and Finnish military forces established a blockade around Leningrad. Their siege of the city would last almost nine hundred days during which Leningrad was struck by incessant aerial bombing and artillery shelling. The winter of 1941-1942 was especially severe. A shortage of fuel forced the Leningraders to huddle around small wood burning stoves and sleep in overcoats. The freezing temperatures caused the pipes of the city's water system to burst. In November, due to the shortage of food, the daily ration of bread was 250 grams for workers and 125 grams for dependents. The siege came to an end in early 1944, but by that time more than a million Leningraders had died. Svetlana Magayeva, just ten years old when the siege began, witnessed the air raids and artillery shelling and endured the cold and hunger. These experiences were so painful that she suppressed them in her subconscious until many years later when an accident re-injured a wound suffered during the siege brought back her memories. Surviving the Blockade of Leningrad is the account of these memories.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761834212
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	06/22/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

Dr. Svetlana Magaveya, former researcher at the Academy of Medical Sciences in Moscow, is an accomplished author and researcher of general pathology and pathophysiology. Albert Pleysier is Professor of History at Piedmont College. He earned his Ph.D. in European History from West Virginia University and is the coauthor of Battle for Leningrad published in Russian by St. Petersburg State University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Maps Chapter 2 Authors' Preface Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 1. The Siege of Leningrad Chapter 5 2. Mother Chapter 6 3. Rudi Chapter 7 4. The Bread of Academician Ukhtomsky Chapter 8 5. Victor Prokhorov Chapter 9 6. Granny Maria Chapter 10 7. Kyr Rodin Chapter 11 8. Misha's Mother Chapter 12 9. Kamilla Senyikova Chapter 13 10. Margaret Markova Chapter 14 11. The New Year Tree Chapter 15 12. The Disappearance of Mother Chapter 16 13. Jan Tissler Chapter 17 14. The Children's Houses Chapter 18 15. Going to See Mother Chapter 19 16. Winter in the Children's House Chapter 20 17. Doctor Lyolya Chapter 21 18. Olga Symanovskaya Chapter 22 19. Olya and Seryozhz, Milochka, and Polinochka Chapter 23 20. Little Alexander (Alik) Chapter 24 21. Summer in the Children's House Chapter 25 22. The Evacuation Chapter 26 23. Other Survivors Chapter 27 Glossary of Names, Titles, Terms, and Abbreviations Chapter 28 Bibliography Chapter 29 About the Authors and Translator