title: The Leningrad Blockade through the Lens of Historical Sociology and Social History
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metadata.value: Brandenberger, D.
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metadata.value: 2024-01-25T19:31:34Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-12
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metadata.value: Brandenberger D. ‘The Leningrad Blockade through the Lens of Historical Sociology and Social History’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 13, no. 4, 2023, pp. 813–818. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu24.2023.404
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu24.2023.404
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44729
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metadata.value: Jeffrey Hass’ study of the 872-day blockade of Leningrad is groundbreaking interdisciplinary research,
  weaving together history, sociology, economics and behavioral psychology to explore how individual
  Leningraders survived the siege’s inhumane conditions and why society in the northern capital didn’t collapse.
  He examines how the blockade challenged notions of gender and class identity and at the same time reified
  them, reinforcing traditional patterns and behaviors. Hass focuses on the siege of Leningrad, which was probably
  the most sustained experience of urban hardship, suffering and starvation in World War II. He is aware that his
  findings may not necessarily apply to other contexts in World War II or beyond, and instead investigates larger
  questions about systemic collapse, such as what determines when communities, institutions or civilizations break
  down and the sources of resilience that allow society to survive extreme hardship. The disciplinary perspective of
  the book is historical sociology, which is an empirical study of society in the past. There has been tension between
  social history and historical sociology, with the former emphasizing the sociocultural context of separate and distinct events and actors, and the latter stressing more generalizable theory. Social historians focus on the distinctiveness
  of historical experience and phenomena, while historical sociologists investigate these topics in ways
  governed by their relevance to broader conceptual areas of scholarship. Historical sociology offers a deductive
  approach, identifying evidence capable of supporting or refuting theoretical propositions, while social history
  suggests an inductive methodology, attempting to make broader sense of disparate historical data. These differences
  have been discussed by well-known critics such as Eric Hobsbawm, who argued that historical sociology’s
  focus on generalizable patterns and behaviors rendered it mechanistic. Hass’s book, as a premier example of
  modern historical sociology, is careful enough to deflect many of these traditional criticisms of the field.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 13; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Blockade
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Leningrad
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: World War II
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: survival
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: institutions
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: culture
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: power
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: resilience
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: social theory
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Leningrad Blockade through the Lens of Historical Sociology and Social History
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metadata.value: Article
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