Leningrad, 1941-1942 : morality in a city under siege

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Leningrad, 1941-1942 : morality in a city under siege

Sergey Yarov ; translated by Arch Tait

Polity, c2017

English ed.

  • : hardback

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [326]-392) and index

First published in Russian as Блокадная этика. Представление о морали в Ленинграде в 1941-1942 гг. : Sergey Yarov, 2012

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This book recounts one of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century: the siege of Leningrad. It is based on the searing testimony of eyewitnesses, some of whom managed to survive, while others were to die in streets devastated by bombing, in icy houses, or the endless bread queues. All of them, nevertheless, wanted to pass on to us the story of the torments they endured, their stoicism, compassion and humanity, and of how people reached out to each other in the nightmare of the siege. Though the siege continues to loom large in collective memory, an overemphasis on the heroic endurance of the victims has tended to distort our understanding of events. In this book, which focuses on the "Time of Death", the harsh winter of 1941-42, Sergey Yarov adopts a new approach, demonstrating that if we are to truly appreciate the nature of this suffering, we must face the full realities of people's actions and behaviour. Many of the documents published here - letters, diaries, memoirs and interviews not previously available to researchers or retrieved from family archives - show unexpected aspects of what it was like to live in the besieged city. Leningrad changed, and so did the morals, customs and habits of Leningraders. People wanted at all costs to survive. Their notes about the siege reflect a drama which cost a million people their lives. There is no spurious cheeriness and optimism in them, and much that we might like to pass over. But we must not. We have a duty to know the whole, bitter truth about the siege, the price that had to be paid in order to stay human in a time of brutal inhumanity.

目次

Foreword by John Barber Preface Part I. Concepts of Morality in 1941-2 Chapter 1. The tragedy of Leningrad The Time of Death The breakdown of moral standards Chapter 2. Moral commandments The concept of honesty Fairness Charity Attitudes to theft Chapter 3. The shifting boundaries of ethics Infringement of ethical standards: arguments used in self-justification Compulsory ethical standards: coercion as a means of ensuring survival Chapter 4. The influence of moral standards on people's behaviour Appealing for help Expressing gratitude for help Part II. The Ethical Dimension Chapter 1. The family: compassion, consolation, love Chapter 2. Ethics within the family: continuity and disintegration Funerals Friends and family Friends Neighbours Colleagues Chapter 3. Party and Government Rules of behaviour Privileges Chapter 4. Strangers Parentless children People collapsing in the streets 'Dystrophics' Leningraders in the queue Part III. Means of Reinforcing Morality Chapter 1. Concepts of civilization Art, creativity, reading Tales of the siege Tales about life in the past and future Diaries and letters Control Chapter 2. Self-control Codes of behaviour Introspection Leningraders in the Time of Death: human and superhuman Notes Index

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