Chernobyl as the Beginning of the End of the Soviet Union
Lindbladh, Johanna LU
(2014)
In Baltic Worlds
VII(1).
p.4-12
- Abstract
- 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
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- author
- Lindbladh, Johanna
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2014
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Chernobyl, peaceful atom, Soviet culture, communism, technology, apocalypse
- in
- Baltic Worlds
- volume
- VII
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 4 - 12
- publisher
- CBEES
- ISSN
- 2000-2955
- project
- The memory of Chernobyl in witness literature and fiction from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia 1986-2011
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 9a3d636e-8296-4a2d-8d9b-f5b24cb3ce48 (old id 5038207)
- alternative location
- http://balticworlds.com/the-beginning-of-the-end/
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- 2016-04-01 14:46:20
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