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"While I'm Alive, You're Alive": Women's Diaries of Leningrad During the Siege

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"While I'm Alive, You're Alive": Women's Diaries of Leningrad During the Siege
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Siege of Leningrad was a "city of women"—their tragic experiences formed the basis of a poignant and uniquely engaging first-person diary. This edition continues the series of publications of diaries from residents of Siege of Leningrad, begun by the Prozhito Center for the Study of Ego-Documents at the European University in St. Petersburg in 2022. In this new volume, the editors explore the unique phenomenon of women's diaries and femininity during the Siege of Leningrad. From 1941 to 1944, perceptions of social roles in the context of war and "time of death" changed in Siege of Leningrad. This book is about women who endured everything during this time of catastrophe. Presented here are eight diaries of Leningrad women. Each tells us of a completely different experience of the Siege. Geologist and poet M. N. Voskresenskaya, teacher M. N. Vorobyova, housewife L. D. Borel, military nurse A. V. Britvina, director of the orphanage N. G. Gorbunova, party worker V. M. Kapitonova, schoolgirl M. S. Roza (Karetnikova), student and volunteer Z. E. Kondratyeva… In their testimonies – wives and mothers, daughters and sisters, lovers and widows – we read the unwritten history of Leningrad women, a history woven from sorrows and fears, everyday hardships and the battle for survival, suffering and struggle, mourning for loss and – to a great extent – hope and love.

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