The legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941--1995
Subtitle: myth, memories, and monuments
By: Lisa A. Kirschenbaum.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- History -- Siege, 1941-1944.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Making memory in wartime; title: Mapping memory in St. Petersburg-Petrograd-Leningrad; title: The city scarred: war at home; title: Life becomes history: memories and monuments in wartime; title: Reconstructing and remembering the city; title: The city healed: victory parks and historical reconstruction; title: The return of stories from the city front; title: Heroes and victims: local monuments of the soviet war cult; title: The persistence of memory; title: Speaking the unspoken?; title: Mapping the return of St. Petersburg.