{"product_id":"the-legacy-of-the-siege-of-leningrad-1941-1995-myth-memories-and-monuments-paperback-9780521123556","title":"The Legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941–1995; Myth, Memories, and Monuments (Paperback) 9780521123556","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941–1995\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMyth, Memories, and Monuments\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTraces the ways in which commemorations created by the state reflected and shaped survivors' recollections of the siege of Leningrad.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLisa A. Kirschenbaum (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521123556, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 19 October 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e326 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.48 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Lisa A. Kirschenbaum has produced a lucid account of the processes of commemoration and forgetting that began almost as soon as the blockade started ion September 1941 … This wealth of material is arranged and analysed so as to provide some fascinating answers to the question with which the book begins …' Modern Language Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe siege of Leningrad constituted one of the most dramatic episodes of World War II, one that individuals and the state began to commemorate almost immediately. Official representations of 'heroic Leningrad' omitted and distorted a great deal. Nonetheless, survivors struggling to cope with painful memories often internalized, even if they did not completely accept, the state's myths, and they often found their own uses for the state's monuments. Tracing the overlap and interplay of individual memories and fifty years of Soviet mythmaking, this book contributes to understandings 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 the largely male battlefront and the predominantly 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Making Memory in Wartime: 1. Mapping memory in St. Petersburg-Petrograd-Leningrad\u003cbr\u003e 2. The city scarred: war at home\u003cbr\u003e 3. Life becomes history: memories and monuments in wartime\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Reconstructing and Remembering the City: 4. The city healed: victory parks and historical reconstruction\u003cbr\u003e 5. The return of stories from the city front\u003cbr\u003e 6. Heroes and victims: local monuments of the Soviet war cult\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Persistence of Memory: 7. Speaking the unspoken?\u003cbr\u003e 8. Mapping the return of St Petersburg\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: 20th century history: c 1900  to c 2000 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on 20th century history: c 1900  to c 2000\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%2220th%20century%20history:%20c%201900%20%20to%20c%202000%20%5BHBLW%5D%22\"\u003eHBLW\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45909231075608,"sku":"9780521123556","price":26.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521123556i_abebf5f5-05db-4417-abf6-563798190cff.jpg?v=1691371780","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-legacy-of-the-siege-of-leningrad-1941-1995-myth-memories-and-monuments-paperback-9780521123556","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}