The Soviet Meltdown

I met Natalia Baranovska, a Ukrainian historian who is one of the characters in Kate Brown's book, last summer. I also read her work on the Chernobyl (in Ukrainian, Chornobyl) nuclear disaster, but I did not know her personal and academic story until I read the Manual for Survival. Baranovska b...

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Published in:Slavic review 2020-01, Vol.79 (2), p.293-297
Main Author: Plokhy, Serhii
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Archives & records
Cancer
CRITICAL DISCUSSION FORUM: KATE BROWN, A MANUAL FOR SURVIVAL: CHERNOBYL GUIDE TO THE FUTURE
Environmental history
Ethnicity
Explosions
Historians
Historical analysis
Nuclear accidents & safety
Nuclear power plants
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Summary:I met Natalia Baranovska, a Ukrainian historian who is one of the characters in Kate Brown's book, last summer. I also read her work on the Chernobyl (in Ukrainian, Chornobyl) nuclear disaster, but I did not know her personal and academic story until I read the Manual for Survival. Baranovska began to study the Chernobyl catastrophe before any of her fellow historians in Kyiv considered it a legitimate topic for historical research. She made dozens, if not hundreds, of visits to the Chernobyl exclusion zone and saved hundreds, perhaps thousands, of pages of documents on the disaster that she brought from the area. Natalia Baranovska is also a cancer survivor.
ISSN:0037-6779
2325-7784
DOI:10.1017/slr.2020.84