Block diaries and documents. From the archive of the Office of the FSB of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg and Len. areas

This unique collection contains block diaries from the Archive of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation for the city of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. The diaries were conducted by the authors directly during the blockade of Leningrad and there is no censorship in them, inherent in the memories of the blockade officially published in the Soviet period. They were introduced to the criminal cases of their authors - an accountant of one of the institutes, a school teacher and two Red Army soldiers who fought on the Leningrad Front, before the call - ordinary workers. These diaries give an invaluable idea of ​​the everyday life of a blockade city, they have many details of everyday life, descriptions of sensations and fears. The reader for the first time will be able to see the blockade of Leningrad through the eyes of people of various professions, the educational level and position, overcoming the traditional roll in the direction of displaying the greatest tragedy of the Second World War exclusively by representatives of the intelligentsia.
In addition, the collection includes polls,