{"product_id":"wartime-suffering-and-survival-the-human-condition-under-siege-in-the-blockade-of-leningrad-1941-1944-hardcover","title":"Wartime Suffering and Survival: The Human Condition Under Siege in the Blockade of Leningrad, 1941-1944 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJeffrey K. Hass\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the 872-day siege of Leningrad from September 1941 to January 1944, civilians endured air raids, bread rations as low as 125 grams, food theft and speculation by opportunistic officials and shadow market traders, and death by starvation. As shocks of total war weaken institutions, desperate survival can compel violation of norms, and personal suffering can shatter long-held beliefs and practices. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eWartime Suffering and Survival\u003c\/em\u003e, Jeffrey K. Hass uses the Blockade of Leningrad in World War II to explore the social practices and dynamics by which we cope or collapse. Using hundreds of personal accounts from diaries, recollections, police records, interviews, and state documents, Hass tells the story of how average Leningraders coped with the nightmares of war, starvation, and extreme uncertainty. By exploring the state and shadow markets, food, families, gender, class, death, and suffering, he describes the routines of daily life, the functioning of official institutions, and the development of illegal practices that were made and remade in the interactions of citizens and state agencies coping with new and extreme situations. The key to what Leningraders did and how they survived, Hass argues, is relations to anchors--entities of symbolic and personal significance that tethered Leningraders to each other and shaped practices of empathy and compassion, and of opportunism and\u003cbr\u003eegoism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving and powerful, \u003cem\u003eWartime Suffering and Survival \u003c\/em\u003egoes to the heart of human resilience and fragility and to the core of the human condition--both individual and social.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJeffrey K. Hass\u003c\/strong\u003e is currently an associate professor in the Department of Sociology \u0026amp; Anthropology at the University of Richmond and a part-time Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Economics, Department of Economic Theory, at St. Petersburg State University in Russia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 440\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 9.4 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 20, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51788562202912,"sku":"9780197514276","price":100.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/636345be3a6839dbe9a72ed6ccf1c905.webp?v=1780654612","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/wartime-suffering-and-survival-the-human-condition-under-siege-in-the-blockade-of-leningrad-1941-1944-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}