164 Tanja Penter
Environmental Justice (Stanford, CA: Stanford Economics and Finance, 2012); Barbara Rose Johnston (ed.), Life and Death Matters. Human Rights, Environment, and
Social Justice, (Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2011); Christopher Williams, “An
Environmental Victimology,” in: Social Justice, 23 (1996) 4, 16–40; On the Soviet
Union and its successor states: Julian Agyeman and Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger
(eds.), Environmental Justice and Sustainability in the Former Soviet Union (Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press, 2009); Paula Garb, “Russia’s Radiation Victims of Cold War.
Weapons Production Surviving in a Culture of Secrecy and Denial,” in: Barbara
Rose Johnston (ed.), Half-Lives, Half-Truth. Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the
Cold War (Santa Fe, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2007), 249–275.
12. Williams, “An Environmental Victimology,” 21.
13. Adriana Petryna, Life Exposed. Biological Citizens after Chernobyl (Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 2003); Adriana Petryna, “Biological Citizenship: The
Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations,” in: Osiris, 2nd Series,
Vol. 19, Landscapes of Exposure: Knowledge and Illness in Modern Environments
(2004), 250–265; Adriana Petryna, “Nuclear Payouts: Knowledge and Compensation in the Chernobyl Aftermath,” in: Anthropology Now, 2009, 1(2), 30–40.
14. On environmental history see Douglas R. Weiner, A Little Corner of Freedom: Russian Nature Protection from Stalin to Gorbachev (Berkeley, CA: University of California
Press, 1999); Paul Josephson et al., An Environmental History of Russia (Cambridge:
University Press, 2013); Laurent Coumel and Marc Elie (eds.), A Belated and Tragic
Ecological Revolution: Nature, Disasters, and Green Activists in the Soviet Union and the
Post-Soviet States, 1960s–2010s, Special Issue, Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, 40, 2
(2013); Nicholas Breyfogle, Eurasian Environments: Nature and Ecology in Imperial
Russia and Soviet History (Pittsburgh, PA: University Press, 2018); Melanie Arndt
and Laurent Coumel (eds.), The Green End of the Red Empire, Special Issue, Ab Imperio 20, 1 (2019); Melanie Arndt (ed.), Politik und Gesellschaft nach Tschernobyl: (Ost-)
Europäische Perspektiven (Berlin: Ch. Links Verlag, 2016).
15. Law of the Russian Federation Nr. 4995-I, 20.05.1993 “On social protection of
citizens exposed to radiation as a result of the 1957 accident at the Mayak production association and the dumping of radioactive waste in the Techa river” (“O
sotsial’noi zashchite grazhdan, podvergshikhsja vozdeistviiu radiatsii vledstvie avarii v 1957
godu na proizvodstvennom ob’edinenii „Mayak“i sbrosov radioaktivnykh otkhodov v reku
Techa”). This law was replaced by a modified version in 1998: Law of the Russian
Federation Nr. 175-FZ, 26.11.1998 “On social protection of citizens of the Russian
Federation exposed to radiation as a result of the accident at the Mayak production
association in 1957 and the dumping of radioactive waste in the Techa river” (“O
sotsial’noi zashchite grazhdan Rossiiskoi Federatsii podvergshikhsja vozdeistviiu
radiatsii vledstvie avarii v 1957 godu na proizvodstvennom ob’edinenii „Mayak“i
sbrosov radioaktivnykh otkhodov v reku Techa”).
16. See Kate Brown, Plutopia. Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities and the Great Soviet and
American Plutonium Disasters, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013); Sonja D.
Schmid, Producing Power: The Pre-Chernobyl History of the Soviet Nuclear Industry
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015); Laura Sembritzki, “Maiak 1957 and its Aftermath: Radiation Knowledge and Ignorance in the Soviet Union,” in: Jahrbücher
für Geschichte Osteuropas, 66, 1 (2018), 45–64; Laura Sembritzki, Nukleares Naturschutzgebiet im Süd-Ural: Atommüllkatastrophen und Strahlenschutz in der Sowjetunion
(Diss. Heidelberg University, 2019).
17. See the contributions by Laura Sembritzki and Olga Nikonova in this volume.
18. Klaus Gestwa, “Ökologischer Notstand und sozialer Protest. Ein umwelthistorischer
Blick auf die Reformunfähigkeit und den Zerfall der Sowjetunion,” in: Archiv für
Sozialgeschichte 43 (2003), 349–383; Julia Obertreis, “Von der Naturbeherrschung
zum Ökozid? Aktuelle Fragen einer Umweltzeitgeschichte Ost- und Ostmitteleuropas,” in: Zeithistorische Forschungen 9 (2012), 115–122.
Environmental Justice (Stanford, CA: Stanford Economics and Finance, 2012); Barbara Rose Johnston (ed.), Life and Death Matters. Human Rights, Environment, and
Social Justice, (Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2011); Christopher Williams, “An
Environmental Victimology,” in: Social Justice, 23 (1996) 4, 16–40; On the Soviet
Union and its successor states: Julian Agyeman and Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger
(eds.), Environmental Justice and Sustainability in the Former Soviet Union (Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press, 2009); Paula Garb, “Russia’s Radiation Victims of Cold War.
Weapons Production Surviving in a Culture of Secrecy and Denial,” in: Barbara
Rose Johnston (ed.), Half-Lives, Half-Truth. Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the
Cold War (Santa Fe, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2007), 249–275.
12. Williams, “An Environmental Victimology,” 21.
13. Adriana Petryna, Life Exposed. Biological Citizens after Chernobyl (Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 2003); Adriana Petryna, “Biological Citizenship: The
Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations,” in: Osiris, 2nd Series,
Vol. 19, Landscapes of Exposure: Knowledge and Illness in Modern Environments
(2004), 250–265; Adriana Petryna, “Nuclear Payouts: Knowledge and Compensation in the Chernobyl Aftermath,” in: Anthropology Now, 2009, 1(2), 30–40.
14. On environmental history see Douglas R. Weiner, A Little Corner of Freedom: Russian Nature Protection from Stalin to Gorbachev (Berkeley, CA: University of California
Press, 1999); Paul Josephson et al., An Environmental History of Russia (Cambridge:
University Press, 2013); Laurent Coumel and Marc Elie (eds.), A Belated and Tragic
Ecological Revolution: Nature, Disasters, and Green Activists in the Soviet Union and the
Post-Soviet States, 1960s–2010s, Special Issue, Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, 40, 2
(2013); Nicholas Breyfogle, Eurasian Environments: Nature and Ecology in Imperial
Russia and Soviet History (Pittsburgh, PA: University Press, 2018); Melanie Arndt
and Laurent Coumel (eds.), The Green End of the Red Empire, Special Issue, Ab Imperio 20, 1 (2019); Melanie Arndt (ed.), Politik und Gesellschaft nach Tschernobyl: (Ost-)
Europäische Perspektiven (Berlin: Ch. Links Verlag, 2016).
15. Law of the Russian Federation Nr. 4995-I, 20.05.1993 “On social protection of
citizens exposed to radiation as a result of the 1957 accident at the Mayak production association and the dumping of radioactive waste in the Techa river” (“O
sotsial’noi zashchite grazhdan, podvergshikhsja vozdeistviiu radiatsii vledstvie avarii v 1957
godu na proizvodstvennom ob’edinenii „Mayak“i sbrosov radioaktivnykh otkhodov v reku
Techa”). This law was replaced by a modified version in 1998: Law of the Russian
Federation Nr. 175-FZ, 26.11.1998 “On social protection of citizens of the Russian
Federation exposed to radiation as a result of the accident at the Mayak production
association in 1957 and the dumping of radioactive waste in the Techa river” (“O
sotsial’noi zashchite grazhdan Rossiiskoi Federatsii podvergshikhsja vozdeistviiu
radiatsii vledstvie avarii v 1957 godu na proizvodstvennom ob’edinenii „Mayak“i
sbrosov radioaktivnykh otkhodov v reku Techa”).
16. See Kate Brown, Plutopia. Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities and the Great Soviet and
American Plutonium Disasters, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013); Sonja D.
Schmid, Producing Power: The Pre-Chernobyl History of the Soviet Nuclear Industry
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015); Laura Sembritzki, “Maiak 1957 and its Aftermath: Radiation Knowledge and Ignorance in the Soviet Union,” in: Jahrbücher
für Geschichte Osteuropas, 66, 1 (2018), 45–64; Laura Sembritzki, Nukleares Naturschutzgebiet im Süd-Ural: Atommüllkatastrophen und Strahlenschutz in der Sowjetunion
(Diss. Heidelberg University, 2019).
17. See the contributions by Laura Sembritzki and Olga Nikonova in this volume.
18. Klaus Gestwa, “Ökologischer Notstand und sozialer Protest. Ein umwelthistorischer
Blick auf die Reformunfähigkeit und den Zerfall der Sowjetunion,” in: Archiv für
Sozialgeschichte 43 (2003), 349–383; Julia Obertreis, “Von der Naturbeherrschung
zum Ökozid? Aktuelle Fragen einer Umweltzeitgeschichte Ost- und Ostmitteleuropas,” in: Zeithistorische Forschungen 9 (2012), 115–122.