Leningrad blockade. Three terrible years in documents with comments

What do we know about the siege of Leningrad? Tanya Savicheva's diary, metronome, Olga Berggolts' poems - these are the most striking associations. How did the tragedy become possible, and why did this happen to only one city during four terrible years of war? In this book, a team of Russian historians turns to previously published archival documents, step by step reconstructing the events that led to the famine of hundreds of thousands of Leningraders. Supplementing sources with articles and commentaries, drawing on the latest historiography, the book’s compilers show why the plans of the Soviet leadership to supply the city failed, and Leningrad had to spend 872 days under the siege. Historical sources and maps allow us to trace the fate of the notorious 2nd Shock Army, led by General Vlasov. Thanks to published documents and photographs, readers will be able to touch one of the darkest pages of the history of our country and hear the “voices” of the people of that time.