Chernobyl

Everything that was published years after the Chernobyl catastrophe could refer to a great deal of substantial material and facts in retrospect. But during the catastrophe the reporting was partly characterized by ignorance a lack of facts and the undermining of information by speculations fears and rumors. And that is exactly what this book is about: day by day reports as things were happening the struggle for information the development of glasnost in the Soviet media and a look back from today´s perspective. Overall this book is a small contribution to the realistic handling of journalism in crises at a time when there was neither the internet nor mobile phones nor e-mails or satellite television. And even free telephone connections were not allowed for Western correspondents in the Soviet Union.