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Book

Chernobyl children : a transnational history of a nuclear disaster

Call Number

  • 363.1799 A747 (CEN, OSH)

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Publication Information

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Physical Description

xix, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

"In the wake of the Chernobyl disaster, more than a million Belarusian, Ukrainian, and Russian children were sent abroad. This insightful study demonstrates how this exposed the ecological consequences of a nuclear catastrophe to the world, and brought the human reality of the disaster into the lives of hundreds of thousands of people"--

Contents

  • Prologue : Prypiat
  • Artek
  • Boston
  • A transnational disaster : currents and connections
  • The disaster and after
  • The Soviet Chernobyl children
  • The Chernobyl children as 'children of the whole planet'
  • The Chernobyl children.

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