The Legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1995(English, Hardcover, Kirschenbaum Lisa A.)

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The Legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1995(English, Hardcover, Kirschenbaum Lisa A.) is written by Kirschenbaum Lisa A. and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521863260 (ISBN 10) and 9780521863261 (ISBN 13).

The siege of Leningrad constituted one of the most dramatic episodes of World War II, one that individuals and the state began to commemorate almost immediately. Official representations of 'heroic Leningrad' omitted and distorted a great deal. Nonetheless, survivors struggling to cope with painful memories often internalized, even if they did not completely accept, the state's myths, and they often found their own uses for the state's monuments. Tracing the overlap and interplay of individual memories and fifty years of Soviet mythmaking, this book contributes to understandings of both the power of Soviet identities and the delegitimizing potential of the Soviet Union's chief legitimizing myths. Because besieged Leningrad blurred the boundaries between the largely male battlefront and the predominantly female home front, it offers a unique vantage point for a study of the gendered dimensions of the war experience, urban space, individual memory, and public commemoration.