Rivne NPP, view of the plant site from the IT department‘s office (unknown Artist)
The second topical issue edited by our project group has appeared in Cahiers du Monde russe, a leading, peer-reviewed French journal for Russian and Soviet studies. Entitled “La modernité nucléaire soviétique. Dimensions transnationales, processus décentrés et héritages persistants/Soviet Nuclear Modernity. Transnational dimensions, decentering dynamics and enduring legacies”, the issue comprises eleven articles in English, French and Russian by leading researchers in the field.
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Table of Contents
[Titles of articles below indicate the language in which they are written.]
Stefan Guth, Klaus Gestwa, Tanja Penter, Julia Richers, Soviet Nuclear Technoscience: Topography of the Field and New Avenues of Research [full text]
Idem, La technoscience nucléaire soviétique: topographie du champ et nouvelles recherches“ [texte intégral]
Beyond Moscow: Decentering Soviet Nuclear History
Stefan Guth, Breeding Progress Or ‘To the Pioneers of the Remote Future Fly Our 20st-Century Dreams!’
Andrei Stsiapanau, Les trajectoires technopolitiques de Tchernobyl en Biélorussie
Anna Veronika Wendland, Nuclearizing Ukraine – Ukrainizing the Atom. Soviet Nuclear Technopolitics, Crisis, and Resilience at the Imperial Periphery
Across the Bloc Divide: Transsystemic Entanglements and the Global Imperative
Roman Khandozhko, Quantum Tunnelling through the Iron Curtain: The Soviet Nuclear City of Dubna as a Cold War Crossing Point
Fabian Lüscher, Romashka and the Power of Conversion. International Implications of Space Nuclear Power Projects in the Soviet Union [Im Lektorat bei Heath via SG]
Carla Konta, Yugoslav Nuclear Diplomacy between the Soviet Union and the United States, 1950–1965
Mara Drogan, Atoms for Peace and the Third World: Questioning the Cold War Framework
Secrecy, Publicity and Framing Legacies: Social and Discursive Practices
Галина Орлова, Секретная лабораторная жизнь
Susanne Bauer, Beyond the Nuclear Epicenter: Health Risk and Secrecy at Semipalatinsk
Tatiana Kasperski, From Legacy to Heritage: The Changing Political and Symbolic Status of Military Nuclear Waste in Russia
