Trauma of military childhood (Blockade, evacuation, occupation)

The book by M. A. Gulina and F. V. Gulin “Trauma of War Childhood (Siege, Evacuation, Occupation): Historical and Psychological Research” is based on a long-term and so far the only study of the psychological consequences of the Siege of Leningrad, conducted since 2005 under the guidance of Professor of St. Petersburg State University and Moscow State University, Doctor of Psychological Sciences Marina Anatolyevna Gulina.

The book contains a psychological, historical and psychoanalytic analysis of more than 120 interviews with elderly people who experienced the Great Patriotic War as children. The authors' goals were to reconstruct the internal picture of the war, including the Siege of Leningrad, as children and adolescents saw it, as well as to search for possible connections between childhood traumatic experiences and the lives of veterans today. For the first time, the psychological (conscious and unconscious) consequences of the Siege and evacuation are discussed, as well as the impact of the psychological trauma of the war on the next generations of Leningraders.