Tracing the atom: nuclear legacies in Russia and Central Asia

"This book is about nuclear legacies in Russia and Central Asia, focusing on selected sites of the Soviet atomic program, many of which have remained understudied. Nuclear operations, for energy or military purposes, demanded a vast infrastructure of production and supply chains that have trans...

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Other Authors: Bauer, Susanne (Editor) , Penter, Tanja (Editor)
Format: Book/Monograph
Language:English
Published: London New York Routledge 2022
Series:Routledge histories of Central and Eastern Europe
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Author Notes:edited by Susanne Bauer and Tanja Penter
Table of Contents:
  • Tracing the atom. Nuclear legacies in Russia and Central Asia / Susanne Bauer and Tanja Penter
  • The nuclear landscape as a garden. An envirotechnical history of Shevchenko/Aqtau, 1959-2019 / Stefan Guth
  • Radiation expertise in the nuclear landscapes of the Southern Urals in the 1950s and 1960s / Laura Sembritzki
  • Between profession and politics : specialists in radiation medicine at the plutonium plant No. 817 in the Chelyabinsk Region / Olga Nikonova
  • Environmental relationalities : contextualizing the nuclear production sites in Khujand/Leninabad / Sophie Roche
  • The satanic cosmic force : nuclear arms technology in Soviet fiction / Bettina Kaibach
  • The legal heritage of the atom : dealing with victims of radioactive contamination in the post-Soviet space / Tanja Penter
  • Witnesses to radioactive contamination / Eva Castringius
  • Fallout memory trajectories at Semipalatinsk : reassembling the post-Soviet past / Susanne Bauer.