Record Nr.

UNINA9910554493103321

Titolo

The rhetorical rise and demise of "democracy" in Russian political discourse . Volume 1 The path from disaster toward Russian "democracy" / / David Cratis Williams, Marilyn J. Young, and Michael K. Launer

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Boston, Massachusetts : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2021]
©2021

ISBN

1-64469-734-3

1-64469-733-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (504 pages)

Disciplina

808

Soggetti

Korean Air Lines Incident, 1983

Conspiracy theories - Russia (Federation)

Democracy - Russia (Federation)

Rhetoric - Political aspects - Russia (Federation)

Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986

Essays.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Interviews -- Note to Readers -- Preface -- Introduction to Volume One. Image and Reality: The Declining Role of Evidence in Public Discourse -- Part One: KAL and Cracks in the Rhetorical Wall -- Route R-20—Terry Graves Illustration -- Takahashi—Novosti Satellite Map -- Ogarkov Double Loop Map—The New York Times -- 1. Did the United States Suppress Ground-to-Air Communications? -- 2. KAL 007 and the Superpowers: An International Argument -- 3. The KAL Tapes -- 4. BCAS Correspondence: “Flight 007: Was There Foul Play?” -- 5. The Need for Evaluative Criteria: Conspiracy Argument Revisited -- 6. Soviet Media Tactics and the Body Politic: Prevention and Treatment of Communicable Diseases -- 7. When the Shoe Is on the Other Foot: Comparative Treatments of the KAL 007 and Iran Air Shootdowns -- 8. Of Mighty Mice and Meek Men: Contextual Reconstruction of the Iranian

Airbus Shootdown -- 9. “007”—Conspiracy or Accident? -- 10. Flight 007 -- 11. Carlos the Jackal Attacks RFE/RL! -- Part Two: Chernobyl, Eco-Nationalism, and Loss of Rhetorical Control -- Plaque at the entrance to the Chernobyl AES administration building (1989) -- The Original Sarcophagus (1989) -- Interior access door to the sarcophagus at Chernobyl (1989) 202 -- A Billboard at the Rovno Nuclear Station (1996) -- The New Secure Confinement (2019) -- 12. Chernobyl in the Soviet Media: Unintentional Ironies, Unprecedented Events -- 13. Redefining Glasnost in the Soviet Media: The Recontextualization of Chernobyl -- 14. Chernobyl: From the Ashes a New Society? -- 15. Nuclear Power in the USSR -- 16. Civilian Nuclear Power in the Commonwealth of Independent States: A Case of Cognitive Dissonance -- 17. Soviet News Media: Uncertainty in the Throes of Change -- 18. Nuclear Power and Ecological Debates in the Soviet Press, Mid-1988 to Mid-1989 -- 19. The Final Days: The Development of Argumentative Discourse in the Soviet Union -- 20. Ukraine Nuclear Power Struggles for Survival -- 21. Nonrational Assessment of Risk and the Development of Civilian Nuclear Power -- 22. Ukraine, Russia, and the Question of Nuclear Safety -- 23. Soviet Bureaucracy and Nuclear Safety -- 24. Review of Two Books by David R. Marples -- 25. Review of Plutopia -- 26. Review of Plokhy, Chernobyl -- 7. Pseudo-Science and Potemkin-History -- 28. Confronting Climate Change: Assessing the Role of Nuclear Power -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The 1983shootdown of KAL 007 and the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident dramatically changedthe Soviet Union in unpredictable ways. The Communist Party, which struggled tomaintain control of political messaging after the KAL crisis, lost control inthe aftermath of Chernobyl.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910132728103321

Autore

Pinard Maurice

Titolo

À propos du vote créditiste au Québec / / Maurice Pinard, Vincent Lemieux

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Chicoutimi, Quebec : , : J.-M. Tremblay, , 2009

ISBN

1-4123-6916-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Classiques des sciences sociales ; ; 3753