Life and Death in Besieged Leningrad, 1941-1944

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvii

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2. Introduction: Leningrad’s Place in the History of Famine

   • John Barber

   Pages 1-12

3. The Demographic Situation and Healthcare on the Eve of War

   • Nadezhda Cherepenina

   Pages 13-27

4. Assessing the Scale of Famine and Death in the Besieged City

   • Nadezhda Cherepenina

   Pages 28-70

5. Evacuation from Leningrad to Kostroma in 1941–42

   • Mikhail Frolov

   Pages 71-85

6. Medical Research Institutes during the Siege

   • Andrei Dzeniskevich

   Pages 86-122

7. Physiological and Psychosomatic Prerequisites for Survival and Recovery

   • Svetlana Magaeva

   Pages 123-159

8. The Work of Civilian and Military Pathologists

   • Vadim Chirsky

   Pages 160-173

9. The Impact of the Siege on the Physical Development of Children

   • Igor Kozlov, Alla Samsonova

   Pages 174-196

10. Long-Term Effects of Lengthy Starvation in Childhood among Survivors of the Siege

    • Lidiya Khoroshinina

    Pages 197-212

11. Crime during the Siege

    • Boris Belozerov

    Pages 213-228

12. Back Matter

    Pages 229-243

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From 1941-1944 Leningrad saw by far the largest-scale famine ever to occur in a developed society. This book examines the nature and consequences of the extreme conditions created by the German blockade of Leningrad between September 1941 and January 1944. Using declassified documents from Party and State archives in Moscow and St Petersburg and interviews with survivors, the authors have produced the most informed and detailed analysis to date of the impact of the siege on the lives and health of the people of Leningrad.

• bibliography
• death
• German
• health
• history
• history of literature
• interview
• nature
• society

• King’s College, Cambridge, UK

  John Barber

• Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, USA

  Andrei Dzeniskevich

BORIS BELOZEROV Professor of History, University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, St. Petersburg, Russia NADEZHDA CHEREPENINA Senior Archivist, Central State Archive of St. Petersburg, Russia VADIM CHIRSKY Lecturer, Military-Medical Academy, St. Petersburg, Russia MIKHAIL FROLOV Professor of History, University of the Leningrad Region, Russia LIDIYA KHOROSHININA Research Associate, Department of Geriatrics, Medical Academy of Postgraduate Studies, St. Petersburg, Russia IGOR KOZLOV Professor of Biomechanics, P.F. Lesgaft Academy of Physical Culture, St. Petersburg, Russia SVETLANA MAGAEVA Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Pathology and Pathophysiology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia ALLA SAMSONOVA Assistant Professor of Biomechanics, P.F. Lesgaft Academy of Physical Culture, St. Petersburg, Russia

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