The War Within: Diaries From the Siege of Leningrad by Alexis Peri Varlam Shalamov and the fear of abandoning

and the fear of abandoning one’s home

Olga Ivinskaya

and included the first person to walk in space

filled with failed coups d'etat and political intrigue

As a new Cold War hots up it is ever-more important to understand the origins of the modern relationship between Russia and the West

The War Within: Diaries From the Siege of Leningrad by Alexis Peri Varlam Shalamov and the fear of abandoningWinner of the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2018 In September 1941, two and a half months after the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, the German Wehrmacht encircled Leningrad. Cut off from the rest of Russia, the city remained blockaded for 872 days, at a cost of almost a million civilian lives, making it one of the longest and deadliest sieges in modern history. Drawing on 125 unpublished diaries written by individuals from all walks of Soviet life,