05011nam 2200601 450 991055449310332120230117231659.01-64469-734-31-64469-733-510.1515/9781644697337(MiAaPQ)EBC6825368(Au-PeEL)EBL6825368(CKB)20120239800041(DE-B1597)600382(DE-B1597)9781644697337(OCoLC)1267402592(EXLCZ)992012023980004120230117d2021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe rhetorical rise and demise of "democracy" in Russian political discourseVolume 1The path from disaster toward Russian "democracy" /David Cratis Williams, Marilyn J. Young, and Michael K. LaunerBoston, Massachusetts :Academic Studies Press,[2021]©20211 online resource (504 pages)Print version: Williams, David Cratis The Rhetorical Rise and Demise of Democracy in Russian Political Discourse Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press,c2021 9781644697320 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 --IndexThe 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.Korean Air Lines Incident, 1983Conspiracy theoriesRussia (Federation)DemocracyRussia (Federation)RhetoricPolitical aspectsRussia (Federation)Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986Essays.lcgftKorean Air Lines Incident, 1983.Conspiracy theoriesDemocracyRhetoricPolitical aspectsChernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986.808Young Marilyn J.1942-Williams David Cratis1955-Launer Michael K.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910554493103321The rhetorical rise and demise of "democracy" in Russian political discourse3557586UNINA