Tracing the Atom : Nuclear Legacies in Russia and Central Asia.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bauer, Susanne.
Other Authors: Penter, Tanja.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Contributors
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction: Tracing the Atom. Nuclear Legacies in Russia and Central Asia
  • PART I: Past Futures: Soviet Nuclear Sciences and Politics
  • 2. The Nuclear Landscape as a Garden: An Envirotechnical History of Shevchenko/Aktau, 1959-2019
  • 3. Radiation Expertise in the Nuclear Landscapes of the Southern Urals in the 1950s and 1 960s
  • 4. Between Profession and Politics: Specialists in Radiation Medicine at the plutonium Plant No. 817 in the Chelyabinsk Region
  • PART II: Living with Nuclear Legacies
  • 5. Environmental Relationalities: Contextualizing the Nuclear Production Sites in Khujand/Leninabad
  • 6. The Satanic Cosmic Force: Nuclear Arms Technology in Soviet Fiction
  • 7. The Legal Heritage of the Atom: Dealing with Victims of Radioactive Contamination in the Post-Soviet Space
  • PART III: Traces of Exposure and the Politics of Memory
  • 8. Witnesses to Radioactive Contamination
  • 9. Fallout Memory Trajectories at Semipalatinsk: Reassembling the Post-Soviet Past
  • Index.