32 Bidlack, ‘Survival Strategies’, pp. 96, 106; Leon Gouré, The Siege of Leningrad, p. 192. See also the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System, Schedule B, vol. 2, case 260, pp. 6, 14 (available online from the Widener Library).
33 Likhachev, Reflections on the Russian Soul, p. 253; Vasili Yershov, untitled typescript, Research Program on the USSR, Bakhmeteff Archive, Columbia University, p. 72.
34 Nikolai Ribkovsky, in Nataliya Kozlova, ed., Sovyetskiye lyudi: stseni i istorii, pp. 264, 267–9, 276.
35 Nikita Lomagin, Neizvestnaya blokada, vol. 1, pp. 151–2.
36 See Dzeniskevich, ed., Leningrad v osade, doc. 126, p. 273.
37 Likhachev, Reflections on the Russian Soul, p. 223.
38 Report to Kuznetsov, 28 November 1941. Dzeniskevich, ed., Leningrad v osade, doc. 127, pp. 274–6.
39 Report of 28–29 January 1942. Lomagin, Neizvestnaya blokada, vol. 2, doc. 64, pp. 281, 284.
Chapter 14: ‘Robinson Crusoe Was a Lucky Man’1 Aleksandr Boldyrev, Osadnaya zapis: blokadniy dnevnik, p. 63 (21 February 1942).
2 Vera Inber, Leningrad Diary, p. 75 (31 March 1942).
3 Georgi Knyazev, 22 February 1942, in Ales Adamovich and Daniil Granin, A Book of the Blockade, p. 450.
4 In the second half of March, according to a report to Beria of 4 April 1942, 7,540 houses, 1,020 cows, 134 horses and 92 other livestock were confiscated. See Nikita Lomagin, Neizvestnaya blokada, vol. 2, doc. 9, p. 37.
5 See a report from the Oranienbaum district soviet of 1 April 1942, in Andrei Dzeniskevich, ed., Leningrad v osade: sbornik dokumentov, doc. 184, pp. 430–33. Also Irina Reznikova (Flige), ‘Repressii v period blokady Leningrada’, Vestnik ‘Memoriala’,no. 4/5 (10/11), p. 99.
6 NKVD report of 1 October 1942. Dzeniskevich, ed., Leningrad v osade, doc. 190, p. 442. Notes to Pages 269–281
7 Report to Zhdanov and Kuznetsov from Antyufeyev, 21 March 1942. TsGAIPD SPb: Fond 24, op. 2v, delo 5760.
8 Dzeniskevich ed., Leningrad v osade, doc. 146, p. 308.
9 Dmitri Likhachev, Reflections on the Russian Soul: A Memoir, pp. 245–6.
10 Yelena Skrjabina, Siege and Survival: The Odyssey of a Leningrader, pp. 60–61 (29 and 30 January 1942).
11 Adamovich and Granin, A Book of the Blockade, p. 312.
12 Ibid., p. 344.
13 Ibid., p. 388.
14 Ibid., p. 416.
15 Ibid., pp. 483–93.
16 Dmitri Pavlov, Leningrad 1941: The Blockade, p. 164. The war correspondent Alexander Werth equally erroneously describes the Ice Road as working ‘like clockwork’ (Russia at War, 1941–1945, p. 332).
17 Adamovich and Granin, A Book of the Blockade, p. 185.
18 Ibid., pp. 435–8.
19 Vladimir Kulyabko, ‘Blokadniy dnevnik’, Neva, 3, 2004, pp. 262–7.
20 For an account of an evacuation journey at the end of March 1942, see Yelena Kochina, Blockade Diary, pp. 101–9.
21 Pavlov, Leningrad 1941, p. 164.
22 Kochina, Blockade Diary, p. 108 (11 and 15 April 1942).
23 Report to the Leningrad oblast Party committee, 5 March 1942. Dzeniskevich, ed., Leningrad v osade, doc. 137, pp. 292–4.
24 Skryabina, Siege and Survival, pp. 78, 101–2 (25 February and 11 April 1942).
Chapter 15: Corpse-Eating and Person-Eating1 Dmitri Pavlov, Leningrad 1941: The Blockade, pp. 127–8.
2 Yelena Kochina, Blockade Diary, pp. 55–6, 59 (15 and 19 December 1941).
3 See for example Ales Adamovich and Daniil Granin, A Book of the Blockade, pp. 82–4. Notes to Pages 281–285
4 Letters from Kosygin to Zhdanov, 10 and 17 February 1942. Andrei Dzeniskevich, ed., Leningrad v osade: sbornik dokumentov, docs 106 and 134, pp. 228, 288; Richard Bidlack, ‘Survival Strategies in Leningrad during the First Year of the Soviet-German War’, in Robert Thurston and Bernd Bonwetsch, eds, The People’s War: Responses to World War Two in the Soviet Union, p. 90. See also Adamovich and Granin, A Book of the Blockade, p. 92.
5 Report to Zhdanov by the ‘organisers’ department’ of the Leningrad Party Committee, 4 January 1942. Dzeniskevich, ed., Leningrad v osade, doc. 176, p. 414.
6 Dmitri Lazarev, ‘Vospominaniya o blokade’, Trudy Gosudarstvennogo Muzeya Istorii Sankt-Peterburga, vol. 5, p. 204.
