Written in the Dark: Five Poets in the Siege of Leningrad, edited by Polina Barskova History & Politics Иосиф Александрович разрешил пользоваться диктофоном

Иосиф Александрович разрешил пользоваться диктофоном

more covert and more effective methods of monopolising power

but now he can postpone it no longer

providing an in-depth examination of the networks of influence that define the country's political landscape

Written in the Dark: Five Poets in the Siege of Leningrad, edited by Polina Barskova History & Politics Иосиф Александрович разрешил пользоваться диктофономThis anthology presents a group of writers and a literary phenomenon that has been unknown even to Russian readers for 70 years, obfuscated by historical amnesia. Gennady Gor, Pavel Zaltsman, Dmitry Maksimov, Sergey Rudakov, and Vladimir Sterligov, wrote these works in 1942, during the most severe winter of the Nazi Siege of Leningrad (1941 1944). In striking contrast to state sanctioned, heroic "Blockade" poetry in which the stoic body of the