Wartime Suffering and Survival The Human Condition under Siege in the Blockade of Leningrad, 1941-1944
Wartime Suffering and Survival The Human Condition under Siege in the Blockade of Leningrad, 1941-1944
- ISBN 13:
9780197514276
- ISBN 10:
0197514278
- Edition: 1st
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 04/20/2021
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
In Wartime Suffering and Survival, Jeffrey K. Hass uses the Blockade of Leningrad in World War II to explore the social practices and dynamics by which we cope or collapse. Using hundreds of personal accounts from diaries, recollections, police records, interviews, and state documents, Hass tells the story of how average Leningraders coped with the nightmares of war, starvation, and extreme uncertainty. By exploring the state and shadow markets, food, families, gender, class, death, and suffering, he describes the routines of daily life, the functioning of official institutions, and the development of illegal practices that were made and remade in the interactions of citizens and state agencies coping with new and extreme situations. The key to what Leningraders did and how they survived, Hass argues, is relations to anchors--entities of symbolic and personal significance that tethered Leningraders to each other and shaped practices of empathy and compassion, and of opportunism and egoism.
Moving and powerful, Wartime Suffering and Survival goes to the heart of human resilience and fragility and to the core of the human condition--both individual and social.