Siege and Survival: The Odyssey of a Leningrader (Transaction Large Print S.) - Hardcover

Skrjabina, Elena

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1560005386 ISBN 13: 9781560005384

Verlag: Transaction Publishers, 1997

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-Beautifully written and highly readable, this is an outstanding work by an admirable woman- --Library Journal. -The bitterly ironic note is our recollection, as we read Mrs. Skrjabina's diary, of the glossy and heroic version sponsored by the Communist Party ever since the 1940s in publishing and broadcasting its 'history' of the siege...(this corrective, brief yet enormously effective (tells) us what actually happened in World War II on the banks of the Neva.- --Albert Parry, Russian Review. "Beautifully written and highly readable, this is an outstanding work by an admirable woman" --Library Journal. "The bitterly ironic note is our recollection, as we read Mrs. Skrjabina's diary, of the glossy and heroic version sponsored by the Communist Party ever since the 1940s in publishing and broadcasting its 'history' of the siege...(this corrective, brief yet enormously effective (tells) us what actually happened in World War II on the banks of the Neva." --Albert Parry, Russian Review. "Beautifully written and highly readable, this is an outstanding work by an admirable woman" "--Library Journal." "The bitterly ironic note is our recollection, as we read Mrs. Skrjabina's diary, of the glossy and heroic version sponsored by the Communist Party ever since the 1940s in publishing and broadcasting its 'history' of the siege...(this corrective, brief yet enormously effective (tells) us what actually happened in World War II on the banks of the Neva." --Albert Parry, "Russian Review."

Reseña del editor:

Elena Skrjabina'a struggle to survive World War II began in 1941, with the blockade of Leningrad, which is descibed in this section of her diary. Elena, her two sons and mother follow a trail of terror across Lake Ladoga, endure hunger, bombs and the cold before finding safety in Pyatigorsk.

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• Verlag: Transaction Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1560005386
• ISBN 13: 9781560005384
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 318