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4 For a detailed account of the debate, see ibid., pp. 542–5.
5 Cynthia Simmons and Nina Perlina, eds, Writing the Siege: Women’s Diaries, Memoirs and Documentary Prose, p. 109.
6 Ibid., p. 206.
7 Valentina Stolbova and Aelita Vostrova, interviewees nos 12 and 17, European University at St Petersburg Oral History Project, ‘Blokada v sudbakh i pamyati leningradtsev’.
8 Simmons and Perlina, eds, Writing the Siege, p. 109. For more on the tensions between old residents and new, see Siobhan Peeling, ‘Dirt, disease and disorder: population re-placement in postwar Leningrad and the “danger” of social contamination’, in Nick Baron and Peter Gatrell, eds, Warlands: Population Resettlement and State Reconstruction in Soviet Eastern Europe, 1945–1950.
9 Mariya Berggolts, commentary to Olga Berggolts, ‘Blokadniy dnevnik’, Zvezda, 3, April 1991, p. 144.
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