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Uranium Matters : Central European Uranium in International Politics, 19001960 / Zbynek Zeman, Rainer Karlsch.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, [2008]Copyright date: 2008Description: 1 online resource (316 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9786155211461
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.2/749320943 22
LOC classification:
  • HD9539.U72 G38 2008eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Part 1. Unparalleled Power -- Terminal -- The Race for the Ultimate Weapon -- Uranium Monopoly and the Division of Europe -- The Erzgebirge and the Soviet Uranium Gap -- Notes -- Part 2. The Erzgebirge Region -- The Silver Mines and Healing Springs -- An Early Atomic Age in the Erzgebirge -- National Tensions in Jáchymov -- Notes -- Part 3. The Politics of Czechoslovak Uranium -- Part 4. Wismut AG: A State Within a State -- The Consequences of War -- Wismut and War Reparations -- Maltsev and His Team -- Soldiers of the Party -- Migration into the Erzgebirge -- Labor and Its Shortage -- The Soviet Secret Police and Its Assistants -- From Compulsory to Voluntary Employment -- An Overview of the Wismut Workforce, 1946–1953 -- Becoming a Model Enterprise -- Uranium Towns -- The Cold War of Words and Spies -- The Miners Between Riot and Adjustment -- Radiation Damage and Accidents -- A Final Remark on the Special Position of Wismut AG -- Concluding Remarks -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Archives -- Bibliography -- Name Index
Summary: Examines the impact of the Czechoslovak and East German uranium industries on local politics and on societies, particularly in the decade or so after the end of the Second World War. The Erzgebirge – the Ore Mountains – on the border of Czechoslovakia and East Germany of the time, was the oldest uranium mine in the world, whose important resources were badly needed for Stalin's atomic bomb.

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Part 1. Unparalleled Power -- Terminal -- The Race for the Ultimate Weapon -- Uranium Monopoly and the Division of Europe -- The Erzgebirge and the Soviet Uranium Gap -- Notes -- Part 2. The Erzgebirge Region -- The Silver Mines and Healing Springs -- An Early Atomic Age in the Erzgebirge -- National Tensions in Jáchymov -- Notes -- Part 3. The Politics of Czechoslovak Uranium -- Part 4. Wismut AG: A State Within a State -- The Consequences of War -- Wismut and War Reparations -- Maltsev and His Team -- Soldiers of the Party -- Migration into the Erzgebirge -- Labor and Its Shortage -- The Soviet Secret Police and Its Assistants -- From Compulsory to Voluntary Employment -- An Overview of the Wismut Workforce, 1946–1953 -- Becoming a Model Enterprise -- Uranium Towns -- The Cold War of Words and Spies -- The Miners Between Riot and Adjustment -- Radiation Damage and Accidents -- A Final Remark on the Special Position of Wismut AG -- Concluding Remarks -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Archives -- Bibliography -- Name Index

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Examines the impact of the Czechoslovak and East German uranium industries on local politics and on societies, particularly in the decade or so after the end of the Second World War. The Erzgebirge – the Ore Mountains – on the border of Czechoslovakia and East Germany of the time, was the oldest uranium mine in the world, whose important resources were badly needed for Stalin's atomic bomb.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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