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

"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Raab, Nigel A., 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.