Life and death in besieged Leningrad, 1941-44 / edited by John Barber and Andrei Dzeniskevich.
Life and death in besieged Leningrad, 1941-44 / edited by John Barber and Andrei Dzeniskevich.
Life and death in besieged Leningrad, 1941-44 / edited by John Barber and Andrei Dzeniskevich.
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Date
2005.
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N940.53/91
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xxvii, 243 p. ;b23 cm.
Contents
Glossary of Russian terms -- Glossary of medical terms -- Introduction : Leningrad's place in the history of famine / John Barber -- 1. The demographic situation and healthcare on the eve of war / Nadezhda Cherepenina -- 2. Assessing the scale of famine and death in the besieged city / Nadezhda Cher...
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
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England
Date Published
2005.
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"In the winter of 1941-42 Leningrad experienced the worst famine ever to occur in a developed society. With all the land links to the rest of the Soviet Union cut by the German army, food supplies were reduced to starvation level. In a few months, over half a million people died. Thanks to the Road of Life across Lake Ladoga, supplies increased, bu...
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Life and death in besieged Leningrad, 1941-44 / edited by John Barber and Andrei Dzeniskevich.
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Studies in Russian and East European history and society.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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1403901422 :
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1403901422 (cloth)
9781403901422 :
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940.534721
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991019680189702626
