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Beyond the Siege of Leningrad One Woman’s Life during and after the Occupation: The Recollections of Evdokiia Vasil’evna Baskakova-Bogacheva
120 Pages
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Central European University Press
120 Pages
by
Central European University Press
This memoir about the experiences of German occupation during the siege of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) was written by Moscow-born Evdokiia Vasil’evna Baskakova-Bogacheva (1888–1976), an émigré in Australia, at the age of eighty-one. The text had been forgotten in the Museum of Russian Culture in San Francisco since 1970 until the editors of this volume discovered... Read more
Maps, Introduction. Beyond the Siege of Leningrad: One Woman's Life during and after the Occupation Oleg Beyda and Pavel Gavrilov A hidden past Portraits without faces In the shadow of the blockade Typical untypical Speaking Anti-Bolshevik The city of the poet: At the gates of hell The little devils of war: The mechanics of violence Human trash: Normality and deformity An (un)sentimental war: The image of womanhood A mission for the skilled: Women under the occupationThe recollections of Evdokiia Vasil'evna Baskakova-Bogacheva Early Life Chaos: The First World War, the Civil War, and the early years of Soviet power In Pushkin: Memory snapshots They are here: Start of the German occupation Survival above all: Winter-Spring 1942 Witnessing: A visit to the POW vamp and Dr. Matskevich's fate Poor people: Navigating between the different occupants Securing nutrition: More on food Throwback: 1941 Exit Pushkin: The last year beyond the siege, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Oleg Beyda is the Hansen Lecturer in Russian History at the University of Melbourne.
Pavel Gavrilov is an independent researcher of history of the Soviet partisan movement and the siege of Leningrad, based in Israel.
