List of Figures
vii
List of Contributors
viii
Preface and Acknowledgments
x
1 Introduction: Tracing the Atom. Nuclear Legacies
in Russia and Central Asia
1
SUSANNE BAUER AND TANJA PENTER
PART I
Past Futures: Soviet Nuclear Sciences and Politics
19
2 The Nuclear Landscape as a Garden: An Envirotechnical
History of Shevchenko/Aktau, 1959–2019
21
STEFAN GUTH
3 Radiation Expertise in the Nuclear Landscapes
of the Southern Urals in the 1950s and 1960s
49
LAURA SEMBRITZKI
4 Between Profession and Politics: Specialists
in Radiation Medicine at the plutonium Plant No. 817
in the Chelyabinsk Region
67
OLGA NIKONOVA
PART II
Living with Nuclear Legacies
85
5 Environmental Relationalities: Contextualizing the
Nuclear Production Sites in Khujand/Leninabad
87
SOPHIE ROCHE
Contents
vii
List of Contributors
viii
Preface and Acknowledgments
x
1 Introduction: Tracing the Atom. Nuclear Legacies
in Russia and Central Asia
1
SUSANNE BAUER AND TANJA PENTER
PART I
Past Futures: Soviet Nuclear Sciences and Politics
19
2 The Nuclear Landscape as a Garden: An Envirotechnical
History of Shevchenko/Aktau, 1959–2019
21
STEFAN GUTH
3 Radiation Expertise in the Nuclear Landscapes
of the Southern Urals in the 1950s and 1960s
49
LAURA SEMBRITZKI
4 Between Profession and Politics: Specialists
in Radiation Medicine at the plutonium Plant No. 817
in the Chelyabinsk Region
67
OLGA NIKONOVA
PART II
Living with Nuclear Legacies
85
5 Environmental Relationalities: Contextualizing the
Nuclear Production Sites in Khujand/Leninabad
87
SOPHIE ROCHE
Contents