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The legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941--1995 : myth, memories, and monuments
- Title
- The legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941--1995 : myth, memories, and monuments / Lisa A. Kirschenbaum.
- Author
- Kirschenbaum, Lisa A.
- Publication
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 309 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Tracing the overlap and interplay of individual memories and fifty years of Soviet mythmaking, this book contributes to understanding 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 largely male battlefront and the predominately 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."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Pt. I. Making memory in wartime -- 1. Mapping memory in St. Petersburg-Petrograd-Leningrad -- 2. The city scarred : war at home -- 3. Life becomes history : memories and monuments in wartime -- Pt. II. Reconstructing and remembering the city -- 4. The city healed : historical reconstruction and victory parks -- 5. The return of stories from the city front -- 6. Heroes and victims : local monuments of the Soviet war cult -- Pt. III. The persistence of memory -- 7. Speaking the unspoken? -- 8. Mapping the return of St. Petersburg -- Epilogue. No one is forgotten?
- ISBN
- 0521863260 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2005031818
- OCLC
- 62281881
- ocm62281881
- SCSB-5288255
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries