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THE WAR WITHIN

Alexis Peri

Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad

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.

THE WAR WITHIN chronicles the Leningrad blockade from the perspective of those who endured the unendurable. Drawing on 125 unpublished diaries written by individuals from all walks of Soviet life, Alexis Peri tells the tragic story of how citizens struggled to make sense of a world collapsing around them.

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Alexis Peri is Assistant Professor of History at Boston University.
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Published 2017-01-01 by Harvard University Press