Recommended (English-language sources) by Slavicists in response to the new HBO/Sky miniseries Chernobyl:
Re: the show.
The Chernobyl Podcast from HBO/Sky, 6 May 2019–present, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-chernobyl-podcast/id1459712981.
Gredina, Natalia. “‘He’s not a man anymore, but a reactor’: Meduza Reviews Episode Three of HBO’s Miniseries Chernobyl.” Translated by Kevin Rothrock, Meduza, 22 May 2019, https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/05/22/he-s-not-a-man-anymore-but-a-reactor.1
Moskvitin, Yegor. “HBO’s Chernobyl: Yegor Moskvitin Reviews a Poignant New Depiction of the Soviet Disaster.” Translated by Nastia Kozhukhova and Jessica Mitchell, Meduza, 14 May 2019, https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/05/14/chernobyl-yegor-moskvitin-reviews-hbo-s-poignant-depiction-of-a-soviet-disaster.
@SlavaMalamud (Slava Malamud). Twitter, https://twitter.com/SlavaMalamud.
Re: the disaster.
British Nuclear Energy Society. Chernobyl: A Technical Appraisal [conference proceedings], 3 Oct. 1986, London, UK, Telford, 1987.
Brown, John. “Radioactive Milk and the Lasting Threat of Chernobyl.” Guardian, 18 Jan. 2017, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/radioactive-milk-and-the-lasting-threat-of-chernobyl-a7530176.html.
Brown, Kate. “Are Our Blueberries Radioactive? The Chernobyl Nuclear Cover-Up.” Interview by Anushka Asthana. Guardian, 26 Apr. 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/global/audio/2019/apr/25/are-our-blueberries-radioactive-the-chernobyl-nuclear-cover-up.
Brown, Kate. Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future. W. W. Norton, 2019.
Chernobyl Heart [documentary]. Directed by Maryann DeLeo, HBO, 2003.
Higginbotham, Adam. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster. Simon and Schuster, 2019.
Marples, David R. Chernobyl and Nuclear Power in the USSR. Palgrave Macmillan, 1986.
Marples, David R. The Social Impact of the Chernobyl Disaster. Palgrave Macmillan, 1988.
Marples, David R. Ukraine under Perestroika: Ecology, Economics and the Workers’ Revolt. Palgrave Macmillan, 1991.
Medvedev, Zhores. The Legacy of Chernobyl. W. W. Norton, 1992.
Medvedev, Zhores. Nuclear Disaster in the Urals. W. W. Norton, 1980.
Pinkham, Sophie. “The Chernobyl Syndrome.” Review of Manual for Survival, by Kate Brown; Midnight in Chernobyl, by Adam Higginbotham; and Chernobyl, by Serhii Plokhy. New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2019, https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/04/04/chernobyl-syndrome/.
Plohky, Serhii. Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe. Basic Books, 2018.
Remnick, David. “Postcards from the Empire.” Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, Vintage Books, 1994, pp. 234–47.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. GSC Game World, 2007.2
Yekelchyk, Serhy. “From Chernobyl to the Soviet Collapse.” Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation. Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 177–92.
“Yuri Bandazhevsky.” Wikipedia, last edited 23 April 2018, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yury_Bandazhevsky.
Zabytko, Irene. The Sky Unwashed: A Novel. Algonquin Books, 2000.
- Meduza is an independent source for news on Russia and the former Soviet Union. They are considered reliable and work in opposition to state news agencies. ↩
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is based on a series of books not yet translated into English. The books are in turn based on the Soviet sci-fi classic Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky brothers (1972) and its film adaptation Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky (1979). ↩