The legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1995 myth, memories, and monuments /

Kirschenbaum, Lisa A.

The legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1995 myth, memories, and monuments / [electronic resource] : Lisa A. Kirschenbaum. - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006. - xiii, 309 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Making memory in wartime -- Mapping memory in St. Petersburg-Petrograd-Leningrad -- The city scarred: war at home -- Life becomes history: memories and monuments in wartime -- Reconstructing and remembering the city -- The city healed: historical reconstruction and victory parks -- The return of stories from the city front -- Heroes and victims: local monuments of the Soviet war cult -- The persistence of memory -- Speaking the unspoken? -- Mapping the return of St. Petersburg.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Russia (Federation)


Saint Petersburg (Russia)--History--Siege, 1941-1944.


Electronic books.

D764.3.L4 / K548 2006

940.54/21721