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Zhores Medvedev

Zhores Medvedev, a leading international scientist, revealed to an unbelieving world the nuclear disaster which took place at Kyshtym in the Urals during the 1950s, confounding nuclear ‘experts’ who denied his case. He tells this story in a preface to the new edition of his classic study, The Legacy of Chernobyl, which Spokesman published on 6 August to mark Hiroshima Day.

We have published a number of titles by Dr Medvedev and he has featured many times in our journal, The Spokesman.

<span style='font-size: 14px;'>The Legacy of Chernobyl</span>

The Legacy of Chernobyl
By Zhores Medvedev

Dr Medvedev gives a comprehensive analysis of the long-term global effects of the nuclear explosion at the Chernobyl power plant in 1986. He examines the technical, environmental, agricultural, health and economic impacts of the catastrophe.

To mark the 25th anniversary of the disaster at Chernobyl, we publish this new edition with an extended introduction by the author. Dr Medvedev considers the lessons of the disasters at Kyshtym in the Urals in the 1950s, at Chernobyl, and now at Fukushima in Japan.

" ... a clear and well-informed analysis not only of the causes of the Chernobyl accident, but also of its consequences for public health and the environment."
David Holloway, The New York Review of Books

" ... one of the first insider's looks into what happened, and what it all meant ... (Medvedev) peeled aside government secrecy regarding the explosion and its effects."
Gregg Sapp, goodreads.com

Price: £19.95

360 pages | Paperback

ISBN: 978 0 85124 8035

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<span style='font-size: 14px;'>National Frontiers and International Scientific Co-operation</span>

National Frontiers and International Scientific Co-operation
by Zhores Medvedev

National Frontiers and International Scientific Cooperation was written between 1967 and 1969 and published in English in 1971. Although since 1971 many changes have affected the problems discussed in the book ... its re-issue seems to be fully justified.

The changes which occurred in the years between 1971 and 1975, in the character of international cooperation in the cultural and scientific spheres, and also in the "freedom" of Soviet citizens to move beyond the boundaries of their country, were not dictated by any principle; they were the result of a very effective pressure of public opinion both within Soviet society and outside it, the consequence of concessions, very small in each case, which acquired a legal form. However, these concessions should be seen not so much as enlarging the rights of the citizens, as protecting the bureaucracy from the inevitable fusion of scientific and political thought and from the democratization of the Soviet system ... '

Zhores Medvedev, Preface to the Paperback Edition, 1975

Price: £11.99

296 pages | Paperback

ISBN: 978 0 85124 1272

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