Author: V.K. Ivanov
Reference: Журнал: Радиация и риск (journal: Radiation and Risk), 2010
Abstract: Aims of the work:
- To approve the assessment work of radiation risks of thyroid cancer in people, living in contaminated territories by the Chernobyl accident, administered by the MRRC RAMS (National Radiation and Epidemiological Registry
- Take note of the main results of large-scale radiation epidemiological studies conducted in the years 1991-2008 on the population of Bryansk, Kaluga, Orel and Tula regions, according to which:
– A group of radiation risk for thyroid cancer should include children and adolescents (0-17 years at the time of the Chernobyl accident);
– No significant radiation risk of thyroid cancer among adult (at the time of the Chernobyl accident) population has been found…
URL: http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/zaklyuchenie-rnkrz-po-dokladu-zabolevaemost-rakom-schitovidnoy-zhelezy-v-rossii-posle-avarii-na-chernobylskoy-aes-otsenka-radiatsionnyh
Author: A.K. Gus’kova
Reference: Журнал неврологии и психиатрии им.С.С.Корсакова (journal of neurology and psychiatry named after S.S. Korsakov), 2007
Keywords: neurology, psychiatry
Abstract: Difficulties and errors in estimating the neurological disorder in a person, exposed to radiation, is often found in practices. This is proven by objective facts and caused by insufficient knowledge of some researchers. Cases of defects of education, of people, on the wide range of natural radiation and human body’s content of radioactive elements are found, with which the effects of technogenic impacts must be compared.
We recall that the nervous system has no specific receptors for reactions, on which the quantity of absorbed energy, in the human body, of ionizing radiation could be judged.
URL: http://www.fesmu.ru/elib/Article.aspx?id=174907
Author: I.V. Grigorieva, S.A. Igumnov
Reference: Медико-биологические и социально-психологические проблемы безопасности в чрезвычайных ситуациях. (Medico-biological and socio-psychological problems of safety in emergencies ), 2009
Keywords: psychotherapy, clinical psychology,
Abstract: Study of internal disease picture has become one of the most important directions of present-day research in the field of psychotherapy and clinical psychology. The patients survived thyroid cancer surgery are referred to a risk group because of a wide spectrum of psychopathological disorders. Within this study we used Behterev institute’s personality questionnaire (LOBY) in 90 patients survived thyroid cancer surgery. The study showed considerable decrease in quality of life of the given patients in comparison with the control group. The most expressed changes were observed in physical, psycho-emotional and social domains. This study allows of timely revealing the problems of psychological and psychopathological level in the given cohort of patients and of improving the existing and developing innovative programs of psychological help.
URL: http://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=12977134
Title: Worse Than Radiation and 7 Odd Chernobyl Stories
Author: Sergii Mirnyi. Ed. Frank Williams, trans. Igor Ilyin, Alexander Kalinichenko, Sergii Mirnyi, Frank Williams, and Victor Yevmenov
Reference: Budapest: Bogar Kiado, 2001. 77 pp
Keywords: Chernobyl, stories, novel, liquidators
Abstract: In the days, weeks, and months following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster on April 26, 1986, an untold number of civilians and military personnel suffered radiation poisoning and died trying to seal Chernobyl’s collapsed fourth reactor and decontaminate the surrounding countryside. Among those who witnessed this haphazard and dangerous clean-up effort firsthand was writer, scientist, and former platoon commander Sergii Mirnyi. His short novel, Worse Than Radiation, is a two-part account of one reconnaissance platoon’s efforts to meticulously document the radioactive fallout near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Unlike the narrative of heroic liquidators featured in state propaganda, it is a tale not of sacrifice and selfless deeds but of daily routine that offers glimpses into the life of workers in “the zone“.
URL: https://www.scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/aeer/article/view/2001/1972
http://www.mirnyi.arwis.com/book_1/content_hr_e.html
Title: Coming to Terms with the Soviet Myth of Heroism Twenty-five Years After the Chernobyl’ Nuclear Disaster: An Interpretation of Aleksandr Mindadze’s Existential Action Movie Innocent Saturday
Author: Johanna Lindbladh
Reference: The Anthropology of East Europe Review, Vol 30, No 1 (2012)
Keywords: Russia, Ukraine, Soviet Union, film, reception, Chernobyl’, nuclear accident, Mindadze, Innocent Saturday, myth of heroism, existentialism, Bakhtin, non-alibi in Being
Abstract: This essay presents an analysis of the Russian director Alexandr Mindadze’s feature film Innocent Saturday, released precisely 25 years after the Chernobyl’ accident in Ukraine. In a comparative study between the Russian-speaking and non-Russian-speaking reception of the film, I will show that the philosophical dimension, depicting Chernobyl’ not as a “great” historical, technological event, but in terms of how it affected peoples’ minds and feelings, constitutes the main theme in the Russian reception, but is more or less absent in the non-Russian-speaking reception. Building upon this divergence in reception, I will further explore the theme of Soviet heroism in a hermeneutical analysis of the film. My conclusions are that Mindadze, in depicting a hero who “does not escape”, points towards the existential impossibility of “escaping from your own self”, thus challenging not only the rules of an action movie, but also the Soviet myth of heroism, still a politically intense debate in the former Soviet Union.
URL: http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/aeer/article/view/2002/1965
Title: Approaching the Void – Chernobyl’ in Text and Image
Author: Andrea Zink
Reference: The Anthropology of East Europe Review, Vol 30, No 1 (2012)
Keywords: documentary (works of art), (inapt) comparisons, questions, perplexity, nothingness
Abstract: How, if at all, can the worst-case scenario nuclear accident be represented artistically? Chernobyl’ poses problems for writers, visual artists and film makers alike. For all the eventfulness of the first days and weeks following the accident, the area now seems devoid of life and activity. Nevertheless, the documentary prose writers Jurij Ščerbak and Svetlana Aleksievich, the photographer Robert Polidori and the documentary film maker Nikolaus Geyrhalter have managed to capture in text and image the events of 26 April 1986 and their consequences. Above all, they convey the sense of shock and helplessness that reigned following the accident. They achieve this by working with monologues, underscoring the isolation of those affected, subverting supposedly apt comparisons (for example with the First World War) and revealing the emptiness of existence through a carefully calculated silence.
URL: https://www.scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/aeer/article/view/2007
Title: Chernobyl in the eyes: mythology as a basis of individual memories and social imaginaries of a “Chernobyl child”
Author: Svetlana Bodrunova
Reference: The Anthropology of East Europe Review, Vol 30, No 1 (2012)
Keywords: mythologization of culture, social myths, Chernobyl disaster, Chernobyl children, social memory
Abstract: Some five to seven years after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, a whole culture of helping “Chernobyl children” grew in the regions most affected by the radioactive fallout, fuelled by the presence of several international charity bodies such as the Red Cross and national charities of some Western countries. For the generation of Belarusian children who travelled abroad via ‘health trips’, this activity was both a positive and a traumatic cross-cultural experience that contributed to the growth of the Chernobyl mythology and subculture. Based on personal memories of the author’s five trips to Germany, France, and Italy, evidence given by her friends and relatives interviewed on their travels to Germany and Italy, as well as on the content analysis of online communities in the biggest Russian-speaking social network Vkontakte, the author argues that all aspects of living in the Chernobyl-affected area, which was subject to the special care of both domestic and foreign authorities(including the ‘humanitarian aid’ aspect), were (to varying extents) based on a Chernobyl mythology that played a big role in constructing the “Chernobyl zeitgeist” for the young inhabitants of the “zone”.
URL: https://www.scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/aeer/article/view/1994
Title: Ordinary Tragedy: “Perestroika” of Collective Memory about Chernobyl Disaster in Belarusian History Textbooks
Author: Andrei Dudchik, Marharyta Fabrykant
Reference: The Anthropology of East Europe Review, Vol 30, No 1 (2012)
Keywords: Chernobyl disaster, perestroika, Belarus, discourse, narrative, biopolitics, collective memory.
Abstract: The paper focuses on discursive strategies that are used by authors of history textbooks to construct Belarusian collective memory of Chernobyl disaster within the more general narrative framework of the historical legacy of “perestroika”. Discourse and narrative analysis of the relevant chapters of five secondary school and nine university textbooks of the time period between 1995 and 2011 has revealed two distinct discursive strategies within a common narrative framework. First, the “organicist” discourse positions Chernobyl disaster as a threat to the Belarusian gene pool and thus invokes the sociobiological version of ethnic nationalism within biopower and biopolitics discourse. This strategy emphasizes the preserver of collective memory as a passive sufferer. The second, opposing strategy presents the Chernobyl disaster as one of the initial conditions, rather than the consequence of the preceding historical period, and offers a role of active struggler. Both strategies construct collective memories of tragedy as a form of historical continuity.
URL: https://www.scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/aeer/article/view/1998
Title: An Illustrated Guide to the Post-catastrophe Future
Author: Sarah D. Phillips, Sarah Ostaszewski
Reference: The Anthropology of East Europe Review, Vol 30, No 1 (2012)
Keywords: Chernobyl, Pripyat, tourism, revitalization, satire, visual anthropology, Ukraine
Abstract: This article is a satirical consideration of real and hypothetical projects to “revitalize” parts of the 30 kilometer zone of alienation around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. This tongue-in-cheek treatment reveals that projects for “redevelopment” and “exploitation” of the contaminated zone are about many things: money, ideology, memory, fantasy, safety, power, ethics, and the value of life itself.
URL: https://www.scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/aeer/article/view/2005
Title: Chernobyl’s Aftermath in Political Symbols, Monuments and Rituals: Remembering the Disaster in Belarus
Author: Tatiana Kasperski
Reference: The Anthropology of East Europe Review, Vol 30, No 1 (2012)
Keywords: Belarus, Chernobyl accident, nuclear disaster, memory, politics
Abstract: In spite of the still on-going health and environmental impact of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, this tragic event occupies only a minor place in the present-day political life of Belarus, the former Soviet republic most affected by the radioactive fallout. To understand the apparent weakness in public memory of the disaster, this paper provides an analysis of several kinds of commemorative events that have been organized by opposition political forces and by state officials since the end of the 1990s, and of the monuments dedicated to the Chernobyl accident in Belarus. It shows how these different forms of memory contributed to the erasure of the specific meaning of the accident by framing the disaster’s past in terms of a tragedy among other national tragedies, and by reducing it merely to a tool to attack political opponents and legitimize one’s own aspirations to power or by suggesting this past should be overcome as soon as possible.
URL: http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/aeer/article/view/2000
