title: People and Pets in Besieged Leningrad
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metadata.value: Piankievich, Vladimir L.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Plenkov, Oleg Yu.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Sokhor, Tatiana E.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-05-05T21:25:06Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-05-05T21:25:06Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Piankevich V. L., Plenkov O. Yu., Sokhor T. E. People and Pets in Besieged Leningrad. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, iss. 1, pp. 158–174.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2020.109
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/17508
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article provides an insight into the relations between people and pets during the siege of
  Leningrad. Mass historical consciousness features different, sometimes distorted ideas and
  myths about this topic. The issue of eating pets was a taboo in the official discourse and historiography.
  The relationship between people and pets was covered by memoirs and notes of
  the siege survivors and by scholars. However, the authors are not aware of any studies focusing
  specifically on this topic. Based on diaries and letters of the siege period and later memoirs, the
  article deals with the relations between people and pets in the tragic circumstances and contemporary
  myths about the past. Most of the dramatic accounts, provided by the survivors,
  date back to the first autumn of the siege and the winter of 1941–1942. City authorities and
  law-enforcement bodies had to turn a blind eye to people eating pets and did not comment
  on it. Starvation frequently forced people to engage in the bizarre and previously unthinkable
  activity — pet hunting. City-dwellers primarily tried to feed this high-caloric ‘delicacy’ to
  children, often concealing its true nature. Laboratory animals also used to save lives. Pets
  were traded at the improvised markets. Eating pets could be life-saving, but didn’t guarantee
  the survival. The popular legend about the delivery of cats from eastern parts of the country,
  which is still circulating, was never documented. However, the persistence of this myth reflects
  the wish of the survivors to comprehend their terrible experience and overcome the trauma.
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: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 65; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Great Patriotic War
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: siege of Leningrad
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: pets
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: social memory
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: social history of war
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: history of everyday life
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: People and Pets in Besieged Leningrad
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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