title: Understanding the Meaning of the Blockade: New Methods for Studying Blockade Everyday Life
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metadata.value: Lomagin, N. A.
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metadata.value: 2024-01-25T20:08:43Z
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metadata.value: 2024-01-25T20:08:43Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-12
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metadata.value: Lomagin N. A. ‘Understanding the Meaning of the Blockade: New Methods for Studying Blockade Everyday Life’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 13, no. 4, 2023, pp. 833–839. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu24.2023.408 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu24.2023.408
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44733
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metadata.value: The book by Jeffrey Hass Wartime Suffering and Survival is the result of his many years of work in
  the archives of St. Petersburg in order to comprehend the phenomenon of the blockade of Leningrad as one of
  the largest humanitarian tragedies of the twentieth century. Such a broad view of the history of the blockade is
  highly expected from a sociologist who offered his own view of Bolshevism as a civilization during the war. The
  book by J. Hass contains a lot of hidden and open polemics about the essence of Stalinism (the author prefers to
  talk about Bolshevism), about the war and the blockade with major American and Russian historians, including
  M. Foucault’s student S. Kotkin, as well as W. Goldman, A. Perry and S. V. Yarov. Knowing perfectly the historiography
  of the blockade and being the permanent organizer of discussions on the history of the blockade at the
  annual conferences of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies for almost twenty years,
  J. Hass invariably raises major questions that allow one to see not only the special, but also the general, characteristic
  of developed societies caught in an emergency situation for such a long time. Based on diaries, memoirs,
  interviews, law enforcement reports and other official sources, this book tells about the life of ordinary Leningraders in conditions of war, famine and extreme uncertainty. Relations between people and the reduction of social
  distance become especially important in conditions when the state and its institutions begin to falter. The opportunistic
  behavior of some (including corruption in the trading system and crime), as well as the growing sense of
  hopelessness in the autumn of 1941 and in the hardest months of the first blockade winter, were balanced to some
  extent by mutual assistance and simple human relations of the majority of the townspeople.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
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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
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Great Patriotic War
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: USSR
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Leningrad
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Stalin
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Understanding the Meaning of the Blockade: New Methods for Studying Blockade Everyday Life
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metadata.value: Article
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