Reid, Anna

Seventy years ago this September, Hitler's armies surrounded Leningrad and laid down a siege that lasted for two and a half years. When it was over, three quarters of a million Leningraders had died. A former Ukraine correspondent for the Economist with a master's in Russian history, Reid uses newly available diaries and other materials to get past Soviet mythology and ask pertinent questions, e.g., Was Stalin as much to blame as Hitler? A three-city tour to New York, Boston, and Washington, DC; big promotion tied to an anniversary that should be discussed.