People lived by rumors. The informal communicative space of besieged Leningrad

At the heart of the book of Professor of St. Petersburg University V.L. Piakiewicz - diaries, letters, memories, interviews in the inhabitants of the Blocade Leningrad. In the siege catastrophe, not only food and heat were deadly lacking for citizens: information hunger was no less painful and fatane than food. The lack or inaccuracy of official messages was forced to rely on informal news: rumors, conversations in queues, "Sarafanny Radio" of self-organizing attackers. Metalia between despair and hope generated by the unknown was the reality of each day infinitely a long blockade.
The book is devoted to the study of informal communications, mechanics of emotions and human behavior in a catastrophe