title: Tragic Agency and a Final Rubicon
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metadata.value: David-Fox, M.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2024-01-25T19:27:20Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2024-01-25T19:27:20Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: David-Fox M. ‘Tragic Agency and a Final Rubicon’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 13, no. 4, 2023, pp. 808–812. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu24.2023.403
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu24.2023.403
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44728
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Author believes that this book is about exploring what happens to a city, a society, the Soviet system
  when subjected to extreme shock, such as hunger, starvation and siege. Jeffrey Hass looks at how the Soviet system
  was “tested” by these events, making the case that the Blockade is a “better case” than Stalingrad or the defense
  of Moscow for understanding the war, duress and survival. The book discusses cannibalism as a prism into
  the book’s approach and findings. It looks at the breaking of the severe taboo and how people were torn between
  survival and sympathy, egoism and altruism, cooperation and opportunism in the midst of the “dictatorship of the
  stomach” and “food psychosis”. It shows how consuming human flesh was seen as the extreme on a continuum
  of norm-breaking in terms of what was considered food. Jeffrey Hass explores the authorities’ handling of cases
  of cannibalism, the prevalence and punishment of the phenomenon, as well as the symbolic dimensions of the
  transgression. It looks at the voices of people who violated the taboo, and the mercy they asked for. The book is
  ultimately about the heightened agency people were forced to take in the face of death, and the tragic decisions
  they made in order to survive.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
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: Leningrad
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: World War II
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: survival
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: institutions
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: culture
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: power
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: resilience
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: social theory
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Tragic Agency and a Final Rubicon
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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