Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-238) and index.
Contents
Introduction : Leningrad's place in the history of famine / John Barber -- The demographic situation and healthcare on the eve of war ; Assessing the scale of famine and death in the besieged city / Nadezhda Cherepenina -- Evacuation from Leningrad to Kostroma in 1941-42 / Mikhail Frolov -- Medical research institutes during the siege / Andrei Dzeniskevich -- Physiological and psychosomatic prerequisites for survival and recovery / Svetlana Magaeva -- The work of civilian and military pathologists / Vadim Chirsky -- The impact of the siege on the physical development of children / Igor Kozlov and Alla Samsonova -- Long-term effects of lengthy starvation in childhood among survivors of the siege / Lidiya Khoroshinina -- Crime during the siege / Boris Belozerov.