All shook up : the shifting Soviet response to catastrophes, 1917-1991

All shook up : the shifting Soviet response to catastrophes, 1917-1991 / Nigel Raab.

"All Shook Up examines major natural and man-made disasters in the Soviet Union. Specifically, it compares disasters in separate Soviet epochs, adding to our understanding of Soviet politics in discrete eras and of important transitions during periods of Soviet rule. The study analyses the 1927...

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Main Author: Raab, Nigel A., 1968- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Disasters > Soviet Union > History > 20th century.
Disasters > Social aspects > Soviet Union > History > 20th century.
Disasters > Political aspects > Soviet Union > History > 20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Disasters
Disasters > Social aspects
Erdbeben
Reaktorunfall
Katastrophenmanagement
Soviet Union > History.
Soviet Union
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Conceptualizing disasters
  • Part one. Disorder in the orderly Stalinist world. The Crimean Peninsula in September 1927 and Ashgabat in October 1948
  • Part two. The mobilization of Soviet society under Brezhnev. April 1966 : Tashkent in the news
  • April 1966 : Tashkent in the streets
  • Interlude : visualizing Soviet disasters from 1945 to 1986
  • Part three. Aging response models in Gorbachev's new world. April 1986 : Chernobyl
  • December 1988 : Armenia
  • Conclusion.

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