Domesticity and the siege of Leningrad

Type :

Presentation

Pages :

20 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

07/28/2008

Category :

History & geography

Sub category :

Modern history

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Summary :

Introduction.
The importance of holidays, both religious and secular.
The importance of day to day domesticity.
Conclusion.

Abstract

One of the most tragic and at the same time heroic episodes of the Second World War, or as it is referred to in the Soviet/Russian context The Great Patriotic War, is the siege of leningrad. The siege itself, although not a key strategic event on the Eastern front, holds an important place in the national memory of war. At the same time, it is one of the events of the war that was commonly overlooked by scholars. The first book addressing the topic of the blockade emerged only in 1958, fourteen years after the siege was lifted. The siege is even more overlooked in Western sources. While textbooks often mention the heroics of the Battle of Stalingrad, leningrad is rarely mentioned. The city had once been the capital of Imperial Russia. At the time that hostilities broke out between the Soviet Union and Germany it was still a major center despite the face that it had been somewhat relegated to secondary status after Moscow. leningrad had a significant value as an industrial center. Even in the face of abysmal odds and a dramatically weakened labor pool the factories of the city remained open throughout the blockade. In addition, the naval base of Kronshtadt was a major military installation, but it too, like the city, never succumbed to the Nazi onslaught.