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- **Event Name**: “Writing the Siege of Leningrad” with Anna Reid
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 05 Mar, 2021 at 07:00 pm – Fri, 05 Mar, 2021 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: 27 January 1944 is a sacred date in the memory of most Leningraders. On this day seventy-seven years ago the siege of Leningrad was finally lifted after 872 days of total blockade imposed on the city by the Axis powers during the Second World War.This year marks 80 years since the outbreak of the deadliest of human tragedies of the 20th century which took the lives of over 800000 people. Anna Reid dedicated several years to her research about the siege placing the focus on personal encounters of its witnesses and survivors. Her publication “LENINGRAD: Tragedy of the City Under Siege 1941-44” tells a moving story of “the depths and heights of human behaviour” in unprecedented circumstances. This year will be the 10th anniversary of its first publication. Anna kindly agreed to talk to us about her work share her personal encounters from the meetings with the blokadniki and their families and other insights into her extensive research in Russia.“The siege’s most eloquent victims – the diarists whose voices form the core of this book – are easy to relate to. They are not faceless poor-world peasants but educated city-dwelling Europeans – writers artists university lecturers librarians museum curators factory managers bookkeepers pensioners housewives students and schoolchildren; owners of the best coats gramophones favourite novels pet dogs – people in short much like ourselves. Some did turn out to be heroes others to be selfish and callous most to be a mixture of both. As a memoirist puts it of the Party representatives in the wartime military hospital “There were good ones bad ones and the usual. Their words are their best memorial.” (Anna Reid)WHEN: Friday 5 March 2021 19:00 (GMT)WHERE: ZoomLANGUAGE: EnglishTICKETS: Free*Please register in advance herehttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMlcumgqDMtGNzOFiyQkGSxhZLJnW8S-JF4After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.About the speakerAnna Reid is an English journalist and author whose work focuses primarily on the history of Eastern Europe. She read law at Oxford University and studied Russian History at the University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies. After working as a consultant and business journalist she moved to Kiev where she acted as the Ukraine correspondent for the Economist from 1993 to 1995. From 2003 to 2007 she worked for the British think-tank Policy Exchange editing several of their publications and running the foreign affairs programme.Her first book Borderland: A Journey through the History of the Ukraine was published to wide acclaim in 1997. She is also the author of The Shaman’s Coat: A Native History of Siberia (Bloomsbury 2003) and is currently working on The Russia Stunt which is forthcoming from John Murray.For more information about CamRuSS please visit our websitehttp://www.camruss.com/* While there is no charge for our online events CamRuSS would welcome any donations towards the support of our volunteers' efforts in bringing more speakers and online events during the social distancing time.Suggested donation £5-£10.You can send your donations by a direct bank transfer (BACS) to the following account: Cambridge Russian-Speaking Society NATWEST Bank Sort code: 60-11-30 Account: 18120466.THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
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