The Chernobyl Effect : : Antinuclear Protests and the Molding of Polish Democracy, 1986–1990 /

The Chernobyl Effect : : Antinuclear Protests and the Molding of Polish Democracy, 1986–1990 / / Tomasz Borewicz, Janusz Waluszko, Kacper Szulecki.

The 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe was not only a human and ecological disaster, but also a political-ideological one, severely discrediting Soviet governance and galvanizing dissidents in the Eastern Bloc. In the case of Poland, what began as isolated protests against the Soviet nuclear site grew to en...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
VerfasserIn:
Borewicz, Tomasz,
Szulecki, Kacper,
Waluszko, Janusz,
MitwirkendeR:
Kenney, Padraic,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Protest, Culture & Society ; 32
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Physical Description:1 online resource (228 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword: Political Isotopes
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Ignoring the Atom The Parallel Developments of Poland’s Democratic Opposition and Western “New Social Movements”
  • Chapter 2 Polish Political Environmentalism before Chernobyl
  • Chapter 3 The Chernobyl Catastrophe and Its Aftermath
  • Chapter 4 “No Atom in Our Home” Targeting Domestic Nuclear Facilities
  • Chapter 5 Kopań and Klempicz: The NPPs That Never Came to Be
  • Chapter 6 Communism Might Be Over— Nuclear Is Not: The Round Table Talks and the Escalation of Anti-Żarnowiec Protests
  • Chapter 7 When the Government Won’t Listen: Four Acts of Desperation (1989–1990)
  • Chapter 8 The Boundaries of a New Democracy: Experiments with Participatory Governance and a Grassroots Referendum (1990)
  • Conclusion
  • Index

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