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In Chernobyl, award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy draws on recently opened archives to recreate these events in all their drama, telling the stories of the scientists, workers, soldiers, and... more
Reviews and Recommendations
We've comprehensively compiled reviews of Chernobyl from the world's leading experts.
Stephen Bush It’s just a really thrilling book, as well as being a really interesting history of that time. But the reason why I think it’s also a brilliant political book is fundamentally what Plokhii reveals in his writing, is that the failure of Chernobyl was fundamentally a failure of a political system, as well as a failure of a scientific system. (Source)
Kate Brown He’s really good here at laying down the background of the disaster itself, the plant’s construction, the days leading up to it, the moments the accident occurred. He talks about the accident itself, the delay in informing the public, the censorship of news, the trial of the nuclear power plant operators who he thinks were treated as scapegoats, and the political outcomes of all this deception. (Source)
Rankings by Category
Chernobyl is ranked in the following categories:
- #88 in British History
- #59 in Economic History
- #71 in Energy
- #83 in Fascism
- #11 in Oil
- #95 in Russian History
- #100 in The Cold War