FW: Leningrad siege literature

[June Farris]

Dear Ms. Reid,
There is a significant amount of literature (hundreds of titles), by both 
known authors and "ordinary" citizens who lived through the blockade --too 
much to cite here.  If you have access to the databases WorldCat and/or 
RLIN or the online catalogs of any library with a large Slavic collection, 
you can do a keyword and/or subject search using the following subject 
headings and come up with many, many titles:

Saint Petersburg (Russia)--History--Siege, 1941-1944--Biography
Saint Petersburg (Russia)--History--Siege, 1941-1944--Literary collections
Saint Petersburg (Russia)--History--Siege, 1941-1944--Literature and the seige
Saint Petersburg (Russia)--History--Siege, 1941-1944--Personal narratives
Saint Petersburg (Russia)--History--Siege, 1941-1944--Personal narratives, 
Russian

A few titles in English are:

Simmons, Cynthia and Nina Perlina, comps. Writing the Siege of Leningrad: 
women's diaries, memoirs, and documentary prose. Pittsburgh: Univ 
Pittsburgh Press, 2002. 242p.

Kochina, Elena.  Blockade Diary. Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis, 1990. 112p.

Inber, Vera. Leningrad Diary.  NY: St. Martins, 1971. 207p.

Skriabina, Elena. Siege and Survival: the Odyssey of a Leningrader. 
Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1971. 174p.

Werth, Alexander. Leningrad. NY: Knopf, 1944. 189p.

Fadeev, Aleksandr. Leningrad in the Days of the Blockade. Westport: 
Greenwood Press, 1971.

Magayeva, Svetlana and Albert Pleysier. Lanham: Univ Press of America, 
2006. 123p.

Adamovich, Ales, and Daniil Granin. A Book of the Blockade. Moscow: Raduga, 
1983.

These should all be available to you on Interlibrary Loan, through 
whichever academic or public library that you have access to.

Best wishes,
June Farris



At 07:30 AM 9/19/2006, you wrote:
>Dear Robert, Anna and all:
>
>Here's one: Ales' Adamovich, Daniil Granin, Blokadnaia kniga (M: Sovetskii 
>pisatel', 1979).
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Tim Sergay
>
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>Dear all,
>
>I am writing on behalf of a friend, Anna Reid:
>annareid01 at btinternet.com
>
>She would be very grateful for any advice on memoirs or anything else
>relating to the siege of Leningrad.  In Russian, or in translation, though
>tr. is better.
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June Pachuta Farris
Bibliographer for Slavic, East
European and Eurasian Studies and
Bibliographer for General Linguistics
Room 263 Regenstein Library
University of Chicago
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