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

• Superior document: Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe Series
• Author: Bauer, Susanne.
• TeilnehmendeR: Penter, Tanja.
• Place / Publishing House: Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2022.; Ã2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (231 pages)

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.