LEADER 05011nam 2200601 450 001 9910554493103321 005 20230117231659.0 010 $a1-64469-734-3 010 $a1-64469-733-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9781644697337 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6825368 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6825368 035 $a(CKB)20120239800041 035 $a(DE-B1597)600382 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781644697337 035 $a(OCoLC)1267402592 035 $a(EXLCZ)9920120239800041 100 $a20230117d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe rhetorical rise and demise of "democracy" in Russian political discourse$hVolume 1$iThe path from disaster toward Russian "democracy" /$fDavid Cratis Williams, Marilyn J. Young, and Michael K. Launer 210 1$aBoston, Massachusetts :$cAcademic Studies Press,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource (504 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Williams, David Cratis The Rhetorical Rise and Demise of Democracy in Russian Political Discourse Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press,c2021 9781644697320 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgements --$tList of Interviews --$tNote to Readers --$tPreface --$tIntroduction to Volume One. Image and Reality: The Declining Role of Evidence in Public Discourse --$tPart One: KAL and Cracks in the Rhetorical Wall --$tRoute R-20?Terry Graves Illustration --$tTakahashi?Novosti Satellite Map --$tOgarkov Double Loop Map?The New York Times --$t1. Did the United States Suppress Ground-to-Air Communications? --$t2. KAL 007 and the Superpowers: An International Argument --$t3. The KAL Tapes --$t4. BCAS Correspondence: ?Flight 007: Was There Foul Play?? --$t5. The Need for Evaluative Criteria: Conspiracy Argument Revisited --$t6. Soviet Media Tactics and the Body Politic: Prevention and Treatment of Communicable Diseases --$t7. When the Shoe Is on the Other Foot: Comparative Treatments of the KAL 007 and Iran Air Shootdowns --$t8. Of Mighty Mice and Meek Men: Contextual Reconstruction of the Iranian Airbus Shootdown --$t9. ?007??Conspiracy or Accident? --$t10. Flight 007 --$t11. Carlos the Jackal Attacks RFE/RL! --$tPart Two: Chernobyl, Eco-Nationalism, and Loss of Rhetorical Control --$tPlaque at the entrance to the Chernobyl AES administration building (1989) --$tThe Original Sarcophagus (1989) --$tInterior access door to the sarcophagus at Chernobyl (1989) 202 --$tA Billboard at the Rovno Nuclear Station (1996) --$tThe New Secure Confinement (2019) --$t12. Chernobyl in the Soviet Media: Unintentional Ironies, Unprecedented Events --$t13. Redefining Glasnost in the Soviet Media: The Recontextualization of Chernobyl --$t14. Chernobyl: From the Ashes a New Society? --$t15. Nuclear Power in the USSR --$t16. Civilian Nuclear Power in the Commonwealth of Independent States: A Case of Cognitive Dissonance --$t17. Soviet News Media: Uncertainty in the Throes of Change --$t18. Nuclear Power and Ecological Debates in the Soviet Press, Mid-1988 to Mid-1989 --$t19. The Final Days: The Development of Argumentative Discourse in the Soviet Union --$t20. Ukraine Nuclear Power Struggles for Survival --$t21. Nonrational Assessment of Risk and the Development of Civilian Nuclear Power --$t22. Ukraine, Russia, and the Question of Nuclear Safety --$t23. Soviet Bureaucracy and Nuclear Safety --$t24. Review of Two Books by David R. Marples --$t25. Review of Plutopia --$t26. Review of Plokhy, Chernobyl --$t7. Pseudo-Science and Potemkin-History --$t28. Confronting Climate Change: Assessing the Role of Nuclear Power --$tAfterword --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aKorean Air Lines Incident, 1983 606 $aConspiracy theories$zRussia (Federation) 606 $aDemocracy$zRussia (Federation) 606 $aRhetoric$xPolitical aspects$zRussia (Federation) 606 $aChernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl?, Ukraine, 1986 608 $aEssays.$2lcgft 615 0$aKorean Air Lines Incident, 1983. 615 0$aConspiracy theories 615 0$aDemocracy 615 0$aRhetoric$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aChernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl?, Ukraine, 1986. 676 $a808 702 $aYoung$b Marilyn J.$f1942- 702 $aWilliams$b David Cratis$f1955- 702 $aLauner$b Michael K. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910554493103321 996 $aThe rhetorical rise and demise of "democracy" in Russian political discourse$93557586 997 $aUNINA