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All Shook Up
Nigel Raab
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Description for All Shook Up
Hardback. The first full-length study of natural and man-made disasters in the Soviet Union. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JM; HBJD; HBLW; JFFC; RNR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
Earthquakes, nuclear accidents, and floods were among the many unexpected tragedies that struck the Soviet Union over its history. Requiring the immediate mobilization of vast resources and aid, and embedded within a specific context and time, these catastrophes provide critical insights into the nature of the twentieth-century Communist state. All Shook Up takes a close look at the representation in film, the political repercussions, and the social opportunities of large-scale catastrophes in separate Soviet epochs, including the 1927 earthquake in the Crimean peninsula, the 1948 earthquake in Ashgabat, the Tashkent earthquake in 1966, the Chernobyl explosion in 1986, and ... Read more
Earthquakes, nuclear accidents, and floods were among the many unexpected tragedies that struck the Soviet Union over its history. Requiring the immediate mobilization of vast resources and aid, and embedded within a specific context and time, these catastrophes provide critical insights into the nature of the twentieth-century Communist state. All Shook Up takes a close look at the representation in film, the political repercussions, and the social opportunities of large-scale catastrophes in separate Soviet epochs, including the 1927 earthquake in the Crimean peninsula, the 1948 earthquake in Ashgabat, the Tashkent earthquake in 1966, the Chernobyl explosion in 1986, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780773550025
SKU
V9780773550025
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About Nigel Raab
Nigel Raab is professor of history at Loyola Marymount University, and the author of Democracy Burning? Urban Fire Departments and the Limits of Civil Society in Late Imperial Russia, 1850- 1914.
Reviews for All Shook Up
"This refreshing and impressively researched book sheds new light on the topic of catastrophes and demonstrates that it is still possible to provide important new information on the Soviet past." David Marples, University of Alberta