For example, the books Nmeck vlka: Nation and Country in Arms 1939 and 1945 by British historian Nicholas Stargardt were very popular. Its sales at the ITaj Gorod bookstore from January 21 to 4 increased by 50%. The liter online store even reported a sevenfold increase in its sales.

In the book, Stargardt focuses on how people perceive events. This book offers answers from people and community leaders. Stargardt discovered an innate lack of curiosity and a certain kind of emotional indifference that characterized those who, even under Nazi party rule, were often considered normal and routine, he wrote of the book. Independent.

Literature that captures contemporary events has not yet been written and will not be for long, so people intuitively search for historical epochs with seemingly similar experiences, the diary said. Kommersant literary critic Galina Yuzefoviov. According to him, people therefore try to find convincing metaphors that allow them to understand something about that day.

People need to know what is happening on earth, because the Russian media can give a clear explanation. That’s why he turned to literature, he added.

Russians are attracted to life in concentration camps

Alpina publishers account for forty percent of sales of Viktor Frankl’s publication A pesto ci ivotu yes. On his page, the author writes about the psychology of living in a concentration camp.

Frankl grew up in Terezin, Auschwitz and Trkheim. As a trained doctor-psychiatrist, he assured his colleagues that if they had anything to do with it, the Nazis would sing. At LitRes, sales of this book, according to Kommersant, are a staggering 279 percent. Edith Egerov’s book Mme na selected from the Holocaust poems sold here for fifty percent.

We have noted an increase in sales of Julia Boyd’s book Traveler in Tet i: The Rise of Fascism in the eyes of the common man, said a representative for Russian publisher Bombora without elaborating. According to him, book sales first increased after November 27 and now increase again after November 21.

Bombora is equally proud of the sale of the publication In the Gardens of the Beast: Virtually the Greatest Diplomacy in Hitler’s Germany by Eric Larson, which is about the career of the American ambassador to Germany, William Dodd, between 1933 and 1937. Winston Churchill.