The 900-day siege of Leningrad (1941-44) was one of the turning points
of the Second World War. It slowed down the German advance into Russia
and became a national symbol of survival and resistance. An estimated
one million civilians died, most of them from cold and starvation.
Lydia Ginzburg, a respected literary scholar (who meanwhile wrote prose
'for the desk drawer' through seven decades of Soviet rule), survived.
Using her own using notes and sketches she wrote during the siege, along
with conversations and impressions collected over the years, she
distilled the collective experience of life under siege. Through painful
depiction of the harrowing conditions of that period, Ginzburg created a
paean to the dignity, vitality and resilience of the human spirit.
This original translation by Alan Myers has been revised and
annotated by Emily van Buskirk. This edition includes 'A Story of Pity
and Cruelty', a recently discovered documentary narrative translated
into English for the first time by Angela Livingstone.
Notes From the Blockade - Lydia Ginzburg
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