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Chernobyl children : a transnational history of a nuclear disaster / Melanie Arndt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arndt, Melanie, author.
- Series:
- Studies in environment and history.
- Studies in environment and history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986--Social aspects.
- Child disaster victims--Ukraine--Chornobylʹ.
- Humanitarian assistance--International cooperation.
- Soviet Union--Social conditions--1970-1991.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 342 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- In the wake of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, more than a million Belarusian, Ukrainian, and Russian children were sent abroad. Aided by the unprecedented efforts of transnational NGOs and private individuals, these children were meant to escape and recover from radiation exposure, but also from the increasing hardships of everyday life in post-Soviet society. Through this opening of the Soviet Union, hundreds of thousands of people in over forty countries witnessed the ecological, medical, social and political consequences of the disaster for the human beings involved. This awareness transformed the accident into a global catastrophe which could happen anywhere and have widespread impact. In this brilliantly insightful work, Melanie Arndt demonstrates that the Chernobyl children were both witness to and representative of a vanishing bipolar world order and the future of life in the Anthropocene, an age in which the human impact on the planet is increasingly borderless.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Jun 2025).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1009457780
- 1009457799
- 1009457756
- 9781009457750
- OCLC:
- 1539653817
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