Tracing the Atom: Nuclear Legacies in Russia and Central Asia

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Susanne Bauer (University of Oslo, Norway) Tanja Penter (University of Heidelberg, Germany)

Tracing the Atom

Nuclear Legacies in Russia and Central Asia

Susanne Bauer (University of Oslo, Norway), Tanja Penter (University of Heidelberg, Germany)

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English

Routledge
04 April 2022

European history; The Cold War; Marxism & Communism; Atomic & molecular physics; Regional geography

Series: Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe

This book is about nuclear legacies in Russia and Central Asia, focusing on selected sites of the Soviet atomic program, many of which have remained understudied. Nuclear operations, for energy or military purposes, demanded a vast infrastructure of production and supply chains that have transformed entire regions. In following the material traces of the atomic programs, contributors pay particular attention to memory practices and memorialization concerning nuclear legacies.

Tracing the Atom foregrounds historical and contemporary engagements with nuclear politics: how have institutions and governments responded to the legacies of the atomic era? How do communities and artists articulate concerns over radioactive matters? What was the role of radiation expertise in a broader Soviet and international context of the Cold War? Examining nuclear legacies together with past atomic futures and post-Soviet memorialization and nuclear heritage shines light on how modes of knowing intersect with livelihoods, compensation policies, and historiography.

Bringing together a range of disciplines – history, science and technology studies, social anthropology, literary studies, and art history – this volume offers insights that broaden our understanding of twentieth-century atomic programs and their long aftermaths.

Edited by: Susanne Bauer (University of Oslo Norway), Tanja Penter (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 500g
ISBN: 9781032160504
ISBN 10: 1032160500
Series: Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe
Pages: 220
Publication Date: 04 April 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Tracing the Atom. Nuclear Legacies in Russia and Central Asia Part I. Past Futures: Soviet nuclear sciences and politics 2. The Nuclear Landscape as a Garden. An Envirotechnical History of Shevchenko/Aqtau, 1959–2019 3. Radiation Expertise in the Nuclear Landscapes of the Southern Urals in the 1950s and 1960s 4. Between Profession and Politics: Specialists in Radiation Medicine at the Combine No. 817 in the Chelyabinsk Region Part II. Living with Nuclear Legacies 5. Nuclear Relationalities: Contextualizing the Uranium Mining and Production Sites in Khujand/Leninabad 6. The Satanic Cosmic Force: Nuclear Arms Technology in Soviet Fiction 7. The Legal Heritage of the Atom: Dealing with Victims of Radioactive Contamination in the post-Soviet Space Part III. Traces of Exposure and the Politics of Memory 8. Witnesses to Radioactive Contamination 9. Fallout Memory Trajectories at Semipalatinsk: Reassembling the post-Soviet Past

Susanne Bauer is a professor of Science and Technology Studies (STS) at University of Oslo, Norway. Her research interests are in sociomaterial studies of technoscience and anthropogenic ecologies. She has widely published on life sciences in society, epidemiological data labor, biomedical infrastructuring, environmental health regulation, and post-Soviet nuclear aftermaths. Tanja Penter is a professor of Eastern European history at Heidelberg University, Germany. She has extensively published on twentieth-century Soviet and post-Soviet history. She is a member of the German-Russian and the German-Ukrainian Commission of Historians and of the scientific advisory board of the German Historical Institute in Moscow.