Uncovering Soviet Disasters
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Uncovering Soviet Disasters
Author | : James E. Oberg |
Publsiher | : Random House (NY) |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Current Events |
ISBN | : UOM:39015013000206 |
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Oberg investigates modern disasters in the Soviet Union--from space shots to industrial catastrophes, to pollution, floods and fires. What really happened, why were they covered up, and how were they finally discovered? This book explains it all. 8 pages of black-and-white photos.
Red Star in Orbit
Author | : James E. Oberg |
Publsiher | : Random House (NY) |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : UCAL:B4520849 |
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Describes the Russian space program, telling of unpublicized disasters as well as recent successes.
Plutopia
Author | : Kate Brown,Kathryn L. Brown |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780190233105 |
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While many transnational histories of the nuclear arms race have been written, Kate Brown provides the first definitive account of the great plutonium disasters of the United States and the Soviet Union. She draws on official records and dozens of interviews to tell the extraordinary stories of Richland, Washington and Ozersk, Russia--the first two cities in the world to produce plutonium. To contain secrets, American and Soviet leaders created plutopias--communities of nuclear families living in highly-subsidized, limited-access atomic cities. Plutopia was successful because in its zoned-off isolation it appeared to deliver the promises of the American dream and Soviet communism; in reality, it concealed disasters that remain highly unstable and threatening today.
Handbook of Disaster Research
Author | : Havidan Rodriguez,Enrico L. Quarantelli,Russell Dynes |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 639 |
Release | : 2009-11-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780387323534 |
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This timely Handbook is based on the principle that disasters are social constructions and focuses on social science disaster research. It provides an interdisciplinary approach to disasters with theoretical, methodological, and practical applications. Attention is given to conceptual issues dealing with the concept "disaster" and to methodological issues relating to research on disasters. These include Geographic Information Systems as a useful research tool and its implications for future research. This seminal work is the first interdisciplinary collection of disaster research as it stands now while outlining how the field will continue to grow.
Air Force Magazine
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 854 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Aeronautics |
ISBN | : IOWA:31858028490674 |
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Pioneering Space
Author | : James E. Oberg,Alcestis R. Oberg |
Publsiher | : McGraw-Hill Companies |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0070480397 |
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Takes amateur spacefarers on a flight into the future.
All Shook Up
Author | : Nigel Raab |
Publsiher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2017-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780773550049 |
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Earthquakes, nuclear accidents, and floods were among the many unexpected tragedies that struck the Soviet Union over its history. Requiring the immediate mobilization of vast resources and aid, and embedded within a specific context and time, these catastrophes provide critical insights into the nature of the twentieth-century Communist state. All Shook Up takes a close look at the representation in film, the political repercussions, and the social opportunities of large-scale catastrophes in separate Soviet epochs, including the 1927 earthquake in the Crimean peninsula, the 1948 earthquake in Ashgabat, the Tashkent earthquake in 1966, the Chernobyl explosion in 1986, and the Armenian earthquake in 1988. Juxtaposing various disaster responses and demonstrating the ways both Soviet authorities and citizens molded them to their own cultural needs, Nigel Raab highlights the radical shifts in disaster policy from one leader to the next. Given the opportunity to act outside regular parameters, Soviet residents not only rebuilt their devastated cities, but also experimented with new values and crafted their own worldview while the state struggled to return the situation to normal. Based on archival research conducted in Russia and Ukraine, All Shook Up fills a gap in a global literature and challenges stereotypical representations of the Soviet Union as a monolithic state.