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Chernobyl as the Beginning of the End of the Soviet Union

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Author

Summary, in English

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

Department/s

Publishing year

2014

Language

English

Pages

4-12

Publication/Series

Baltic Worlds

Volume

VII

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

CBEES

Topic

  • Languages and Literature

Keywords

  • Chernobyl
  • peaceful atom
  • Soviet culture
  • communism
  • technology
  • apocalypse

Status

Published

Project

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

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2000-2955