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Based largely on formerly top-secret Soviet archival documents (including 66 reproduced documents and 70 illustrations), this book portrays the inner workings of the communist party and secret police during Germany's horrific 1941-44 siege of Leningrad, during which close to one million citizens perished. It shows how the city's inhabitants responded to the extraordinary demands placed upon them, encompassing both the activities of the political, security, and military elite as well as the actions and attitudes of ordinary Leningraders.

HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union. --- Saint Petersburg (Russia) --- Saint Petersburg (R.S.F.S.R.) --- Pietari (Russia) --- Peterburi (Russia) --- Peterburg (Russia) --- Piter (Russia) --- St. Petersburg (Russia) --- Petersburg (Russia) --- Sankt-Peterburg (Russia) --- Санкт-Петербург (Russia) --- Sanktpeterburg (Russia) --- Санктпетербург (Russia) --- Saint-Pétersbourg (Russia) --- San Pietroburgo (Russia) --- Petroupolis (Russia) --- Petropolis (Russia) --- Petrograd (R.S.F.S.R.) --- Leningrad (R.S.F.S.R.) --- History. --- History

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Walking the first mile of the Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg, the visitor is struck by the sight of the Dutch, Finnish, Swedish, German, Armenian Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, and Roman Catholic churches. These buildings reflect the religious, cultural, and social diversity that has been characteristic of the city since Tsar Peter the Great invited thousands of foreigners from all over Western Europe to build this settlement at the estuary of the Neva River. On the occasion of the third centenary of St. Petersburg (2003), historians and archivists from Russia as well as other European countries convened to study the history of the city’s foreign churches in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The resulting studies, published here, offer fascinating insights into the almost forgotten history of those churches and show how substantially they contributed to the religious, cultural, social, and economic history of St. Petersburg. Contributors include: Archpriest V. Fedorov, M. Fundaminski, P.N. Holtrop, B. Jangfeldt, E.E. Knyazeva, N.S. Krylov, T. Mägi, A. Must, E. Norberg, P.M. Peucker, K. Rundell, V.M. Shishkin, C.H. Slechte, A.R. Sokolov, Th.J.S. van Staalduine, T.I. Tatsenko, J.W. Veluwenkamp, and M.V. Shkarovskii.

Archieven. --- Buitenlandse vestigingen --- Kerkgenootschappen. --- Sint-Petersburg (stad) --- Saint Petersburg (Russia) --- Saint Petersburg (R.S.F.S.R.) --- Pietari (Russia) --- Peterburi (Russia) --- Peterburg (Russia) --- Piter (Russia) --- St. Petersburg (Russia) --- Petersburg (Russia) --- Sankt-Peterburg (Russia) --- Санкт-Петербург (Russia) --- Sanktpeterburg (Russia) --- Санктпетербург (Russia) --- Saint-Pétersbourg (Russia) --- San Pietroburgo (Russia) --- Petroupolis (Russia) --- Petropolis (Russia) --- Petrograd (R.S.F.S.R.) --- Leningrad (R.S.F.S.R.) --- Church history

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The Petrograd Workers in the Russian Revolution is a study of the Russian Revolutions of 1917 and of the first months of Soviet power as viewed and experienced 'from below', by the industrial workers of Petrograd, Russia’s capital and the centre of its revolutionary movement. Based largely on contemporary sources, it lets the workers speak for themselves, showing them as conscious, creative subjects of the revolutionary process, indeed, as the leading force of the revolution. In doing so, it sheds light on the nature and role of the Bolshevik party as an authentic workers’ organization that by the summer of 1917 had become the leading political force among workers. Revised and expanded edition of two books published in English, namely: The Petrograd Workers and the Fall of the Old Regime (Macmillan, 1983) and The Petrograd Workers and the Soviet Seizure of Power (Macmillan, 1984).

Working class --- Strikes and lockouts --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- Labor --- Combinations of labor --- Lockouts --- Work stoppages --- Direct action --- Labor disputes --- Strikebreakers --- History --- Political activity --- Employment --- Saint Petersburg (Russia) --- Soviet Union --- Saint Petersburg (R.S.F.S.R.) --- Pietari (Russia) --- Peterburi (Russia) --- Peterburg (Russia) --- Piter (Russia) --- St. Petersburg (Russia) --- Petersburg (Russia) --- Sankt-Peterburg (Russia) --- Санкт-Петербург (Russia) --- Sanktpeterburg (Russia) --- Санктпетербург (Russia) --- Saint-Pétersbourg (Russia) --- San Pietroburgo (Russia) --- Petroupolis (Russia) --- Petropolis (Russia) --- Petrograd (R.S.F.S.R.) --- Leningrad (R.S.F.S.R.) --- Russia --- Politics and government --- Revolution (Saint Petersburg, Russia : 1917-1921) --- Revolution (Soviet Union : 1917-1921) --- E-books

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Joseph Pilyushin, a top Red Army sniper in the ruthless fight against the Germans on the Eastern Front, was an exceptional soldier and he has a remarkable story to tell. His first-hand account of his wartime service gives a graphic insight into his lethal skill with a rifle and into the desperate fight put up by Soviet forces to defend Leningrad. He also records how, during the three-year siege, close members of this family died, including his wife and two sons, as well as many of his comrades in arms. He describes these often-terrible events with such honesty and clarity that his memoir is re

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This book investigates the demobilization and post-war readjustment of Red Army veterans in Leningrad and its environs after the Great Patriotic War. Over 300,000 soldiers were stood down in this war-ravaged region between July 1945 and 1948. They found the transition to civilian life more challenging than many could ever have imagined. For civilian Leningraders, reintegrating the rapid influx of former soldiers represented an enormous political, economic, social and cultural challenge. In this book, Robert Dale reveals how these former soldiers became civilians in a society devastated and traumatized by total warfare. Dale discusses how, and how successfully, veterans became ordinary citizens. Based on extensive original research in local and national archives, oral history interviews and the examination of various newspaper collections, Demobilized Veterans in Late Stalinist Leningrad peels back the myths woven around demobilization, to reveal a darker history repressed by society and concealed from historiography. While propaganda celebrated this disarmament as a smooth process which reunited veterans with their families, reintegrated them into the workforce and facilitated upward social mobility, the reality was rarely straightforward. Many veterans were caught up in the scramble for work, housing, healthcare and state hand-outs. Others drifted to the social margins, criminality or became the victims of post-war political repression. Demobilized Veterans in Late Stalinist Leningrad tells the story of both the failure of local representatives to support returning Soviet soldiers, and the remarkable resilience and creativity of veterans in solving the problems created by their return to society. It is a vital study for all scholars and students of post-war Soviet history and the impact of war in the modern era

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