Life and Death in Besieged Leningrad, 1941–44

1. Introduction: Leningrad’s Place in the History of Famine
John Barber

2. The Demographic Situation and Healthcare on the Eve of War
Nadezhda Cherepenina

3. Assessing the Scale of Famine and Death in the Besieged City
Nadezhda Cherepenina

4. Evacuation from Leningrad to Kostroma in 1941–42
Mikhail Frolov

5. Medical Research Institutes during the Siege
Andrei Dzeniskevich

6. Physiological and Psychosomatic Prerequisites for Survival and Recovery
Svetlana Magaeva

7. The Work of Civilian and Military Pathologists
Vadim Chirsky

8. The Impact of the Siege on the Physical Development of Children
Igor Kozlov, Alla Samsonova

9. Long-Term Effects of Lengthy Starvation in Childhood among Survivors of the Siege
Lidiya Khoroshinina

10. Crime during the Siege
Boris Belozerov

Avainsanat: History, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, European History, History of World War II and the Holocaust