The War Within: Diaries From the Siege of Leningrad by Alexis Peri Varlam Shalamov filled with failed coups d'etat

filled with failed coups d'etat and political intrigue

Хелены Янечич

and the fear of abandoning one’s home

Pisano suggests we can analyse politics in both democracies and authoritarian regimes using the same analytical lens of political theatre

Olga Ivinskaya

The War Within: Diaries From the Siege of Leningrad by Alexis Peri Varlam Shalamov filled with failed coups d'etatWinner 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 Drawing on 125 unpublished diaries written by individuals from all walks of Soviet life,