Chernobyl as the Beginning of the End of the Soviet Union
Författare
Summary, in English
The belief in technology was fundamental in Soviet culture. When the nuclear reactor exploded and harvested souls and spread illness throughout a vast area, over the course of many years, an image of the collapse of the Soviet Union was thereby created. Chernobyl became an image of the apocalypse of communism
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2014
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
4-12
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Baltic Worlds
Volym
VII
Issue
1
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
CBEES
Ämne
- Languages and Literature
Nyckelord
- Chernobyl
- peaceful atom
- Soviet culture
- communism
- technology
- apocalypse
Status
Published
Projekt
- The memory of Chernobyl in witness literature and fiction from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia 1986-2011
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 2000-2955