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The War Within The War Within Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad Alexis Peri Cambridge, Mas sa chu setts London, Eng land 2017 Copyright © 2017 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of Amer i ca First Printing Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Peri, Alexis, author. Title: The war within : diaries from the Siege of Leningrad / Alexis Peri. Description: Cambridge, Mas sa chu setts : Harvard University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifi ers: LCCN 2016018187 | ISBN 9780674971554 (cloth) Subjects: LCSH: Saint Petersburg (Russia)— History— Siege, 1941–1944— Personal narratives, Rus sian. | World War, 1939–1945— Russia (Federation)— Saint Petersburg— Personal narratives, Rus sian. | Russians— Diaries. Classifi cation: LCC D764.3.L4 P46 2017 | DDC 940.54/217210922— dc23 LC rec ord available at https:// lccn . loc . gov / 2016018187 For my parents, my greatest teachers Some day thousands of diaries will lie on the historian’s t able, and then we s hall see how much t here was that was remarkable in the unremarkable biographies of simple Rus sian people. — Nikolai Tikhonov Contents Maps of Leningrad xi Directory of Diarists xiv Abbreviations and Acronyms xix Introduction: Year Zero 1 Part I. Inside the Ring 1. The Ring Takes Shape 21 2. Becoming New People 37 3. The Elusive I 67 4. Family Life and Strife 89 Part II. Exploring the Island 5. The Hierarchy of Lives 129 6. The City as Medical Laboratory 162 7. In the Mirror of History 201
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