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Tunguska: A Siberian Mystery and Its Environmental Legacy. By Andy Bruno. Studies in Environmental History. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xvi, 305 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Maps. $39.95, hard bound
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 82, Heft 4, S. 1081-1082
ISSN: 2325-7784
Janet M. HARTLEY, The Volga. A History of Russia's Greatest River
In: Cahiers du monde russe: Russie, Empire Russe, Union Soviétique, Etats Indépendants ; revue trimestrielle, Band 62, Heft 4, S. 765-767
ISSN: 1777-5388
Science, (Anti-)Communism and Diplomacy: The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs in the Early Cold War. by Alison Kraft and Carola Sachse, eds., Boston: Brill, 2019. xvi + 356 pp. $179.00
In: Journal of Cold War studies, Band 22, Heft 4, S. 243-245
ISSN: 1531-3298
Review of Kate Brown, Manual for Survival
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 79, Heft 2, S. 284-287
ISSN: 2325-7784
In the thirty years since the Chernobyl disaster we have learned a great deal about the causes of the accident, the human side of the story of those who worked at the station, the operators and their families in the now-abandoned nearby town of Pripyat, the hundreds of thousands of "liquidators," and the millions of individuals affected by fallout, including some 300,000 who were evacuated from various exclusion zones and heavily affected rural areas, mostly to the north and east in (Soviet) Belarus, Ukraine, and small parts of Russia. What are the long term consequences of radioactive fallout to land and living things? How many people have and will die from exposure to radioactivity? In Manual for Survival, Kate Brown documents the efforts of scientists and doctors in Belarus and Ukraine to understand the short- and long-term impact of radiation exposure on Soviet and post-Soviet citizens, and the challenges even to simple data collection. Her conclusions stand in stark contrast to those of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the United Nations (UN) Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation that estimated perhaps 5,000 total deaths. The numbers will be much higher, perhaps on the order of 10,000 or 50,000 excess cancers and premature deaths. But we shall never know with certainty owing to a variety of factors—including the challenges of conducting research in the former Soviet Union, the obfuscation of data in some quarters who appear to seek to minimize the impact, and scientific uncertainty itself.
Kinga Pozniak, Nowa Huta. Generations of Change in a Model Socialist Town
In: Cahiers du monde russe: Russie, Empire Russe, Union Soviétique, Etats Indépendants ; revue trimestrielle, Band 57, Heft 4, S. 969-971
ISSN: 1777-5388
David Moon, The Plough That Broke the Steppe: Agriculture and Environment on Russia's Grasslands, 1700–1914
In: European history quarterly, Band 44, Heft 4, S. 763-765
ISSN: 1461-7110
Mark B. Smith. Property of Communists: The Urban Housing Program from Stalin to Khrushchev. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2010. xii + 240 pp. ISBN 978-0-87580-423-1, $40.00 (cloth)
In: Enterprise & society: the international journal of business history, Band 15, Heft 3, S. 582-583
ISSN: 1467-2235
The Cosmonaut Who Couldn't Stop Smiling: The Life and Legend of Yuri Gagarin by Andrew L Jenks (review)
In: The Slavonic and East European review: SEER, Band 91, Heft 4, S. 927-929
ISSN: 2222-4327
Engineering Nature: Water, Development, and the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise
In: Diplomatic history, Band 37, Heft 3, S. 624-627
ISSN: 0145-2096
The Invention of Ecocide: Agent Orange, Vietnam and the Scientists Who Changed the Way We Think About the Environment
In: Diplomatic history, Band 37, Heft 3, S. 624-627
ISSN: 0145-2096
Technology and the Environment
In: A Companion to Global Environmental History, S. 340-359
Brezhnev's Folly: The Building of BAM and Late Soviet Socialism. By Christopher J. Ward. Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009. x, 218 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Photographs. Tables. Maps. $50.00, hard bound
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 69, Heft 2, S. 515-516
ISSN: 2325-7784
Industrial Deserts: Industry, Science and the Destruction of Nature in the Soviet Union
In: The Slavonic and East European review: SEER, Band 85, Heft 2
ISSN: 2222-4327
Science under stress: physics under Soviet power: Alexei Kozhevnikov, Stalin's Great Science: The Times and Adventures of Soviet Physicists. London: Imperial College Press, 2004. Pp. 384. US$58.00 HB
In: Metascience: an international review journal for the history, philosophy and social studies of science, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 117-120
ISSN: 1467-9981