Stalin’s Soviet Union · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Siege of Leningrad (1941–44)
On the Stalin’s Soviet Union map as “The siege of Leningrad”
Sep 1941–Jan 1944 — For 872 days Leningrad was cut off by German and Finnish forces. Between about 630,000 and more than a million civilians died, most from hunger in the winter of 1941–42. The War Room atlas follows the siege itself.
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- Stalin in World War II (chapter 10 of Stalin’s Soviet Union)
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- The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
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