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Serhii Plokhy (2018)
A surprising history of the Chernobyl accident. Surprising at a number of levels, not least the (small) number of direct deaths, which I always had the impression was higher. Plokhy links the events into the wider run of Soviet (and, later, Russian and Ukrainian) history, seeing the accident as a catalyst for the political changes that followed. While I’d’ve enjoyed more technical detail, the breadth and depth are welcome.
4/5. Finished Tuesday 17 December, 2019.
(Originally published on Goodreads.)