Chernobyl as the Beginning of the End of the Soviet Union

Johanna Lindbladh

Chernobyl as the Beginning of the End of the Soviet Union

Russian Studies

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Abstract

The belief in technology was fundamental in Soviet culture. When the nuclear reactor exploded and harvested souls and spread illness throughout a vast area, over the course of many years, an image of the collapse of the Soviet Union was thereby created. Chernobyl became an image of the apocalypse of communism

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4-12
Journal	Baltic Worlds
Volume	VII
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - 2014

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Languages and Literature

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Chernobyl
peaceful atom
Soviet culture
communism
technology
apocalypse

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The memory of Chernobyl in witness literature and fiction from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia 1986-2011
Lindbladh, J. (PI)
2011/01/01 → 2015/12/31
Project: Research

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Chernobyl as the Beginning of the End of the Soviet Union

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The memory of Chernobyl in witness literature and fiction from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia 1986-2011

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