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FROM: "Christine Perkins" <[removed]@jcls.org>
REC'D: 2/16/00, 5:54 PM

Once again I would like to tap the collective wisdom of the Fiction_L list
for help identifying an elusive title.

A patron remembers an inspirational story about a group of Russians who
chose to starve instead of eating the thousands of seeds they had saved to
grow crops in the future. It may have taken place during the siege of
Stalingrad, or maybe WWII, or maybe the '20s or '30s. She is not sure if
she read an entire novel about it or an article.

Does this ring any bells for anyone? Not much to go on, I realize. Thanks
in advance for any leads you can provide.

--Christine Perkins

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Christine Perkins
Young Adult & Reference Librarian
Medford Teen Library
Jackson County Library Services
Medford, Oregon
(541) 774-6412 / [removed]@jcls.org
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FROM: "Martha Cohen" <[removed]@kcls.org>
REC'D: 2/24/00, 8:45 PM

This true story, which took place during the Siege of Leningrad (1942),
is detailed in SHATTERING: FOOD, POLITICS AND THE LOSS OF GENETIC
DIVERSITY by Cary Fowler (University of Arizona Press, 1990, pp
220-223)and involved a group of Russian scientists from the Vavilov
Institute who indeed starved to death to protect the seeds stored for
future diversity...little-known heroes.

On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Christine Perkins
wrote:

>
> Once again I would like to tap the collective wisdom of the Fiction_L list
> for help identifying an elusive title.
>
> A patron remembers an inspirational story about a group of Russians who
> chose to starve instead of eating the thousands of seeds they had saved to
> grow crops in the future. It may have taken place during the siege of
> Stalingrad, or maybe WWII, or maybe the '20s or '30s. She is not sure if
> she read an entire novel about it or an article.
>
> Does this ring any bells for anyone? Not much to go on, I realize. Thanks
> in advance for any leads you can provide.
>
> --Christine Perkins
>
> ***********************************
> Christine Perkins
> Young Adult & Reference Librarian
> Medford Teen Library
> Jackson County Library Services
> Medford, Oregon
> (541) 774-6412 / [removed]@jcls.org
> ***********************************
>

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