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Leningrad: State of Siege By Michael K. Jones. 352 pp. Basic Books, 2008. $27.95. The first thing that registers when one visits St. Petersburg’s (formerly Leningrad’s) Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery is its immense size. The second realization is even more sobering— visitors are literally surrounded by a half-million corpses. Perhaps one-third to one-half of all Leningraders …
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