Books by Olga Kuchinskaya
“She talks about how Chernobyl disappears from the public eye; how it became a dangerous topic or one to bring up each year only at the anniversary. She writes about how this new invisibility turns to ignorance and how the consequences of Chernobyl have become an area of non-knowledge. The radiation effects dissolved into health problems of non-specific origins. That makes the problem become invisible again.” Read more...
Kate Brown, Historian
Interviews where books by Olga Kuchinskaya were recommended
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Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
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Producing Power: The Pre-Chernobyl History of the Soviet Nuclear Industry
by Sonja D Schmid -
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Voices From Chernobyl
by Svetlana Alexievich -
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Atomic Spaces: Living on the Manhattan Project
by Peter Bacon Hales -
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The Politics of Invisibility: Public Knowledge about Radiation Health Effects after Chernobyl
by Olga Kuchinskaya
The best books on Chernobyl, recommended by Kate Brown
The best books on Chernobyl, recommended by Kate Brown
While widely regarded as the world’s worst nuclear accident, Chernobyl’s legacy remains fiercely contested, with death tolls ranging from 31 to 200,000. MIT historian Kate Brown, who has spent years in the Chernobyl archives, picks the best books on the disaster, compares its impact with atomic bomb testing, and argues for more research into low-dose radiation exposure
