David Cratis Williams, Marilyn J. Young, Michael K. Launer

The Rhetorical Rise and Demise of "Democracy" in Russian Political Discourse, Volume 1 (eBook, ePUB)

The Path from Disaster toward Russian "Democracy"

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this book examine the arguments and rhetoric used by the United States and the USSR following two catastrophes that impacted both countries, as blame is cast and consequences are debated. In this environment, it was perhaps inevitable that conspiracy theories would arise, especially about the downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 over the Sea of Japan. Those theories are examined, resulting in at least one method for addressing conspiracy arguments. In the case of Chernobyl, the disaster ruptured the "social compact" between the Soviet government and the people; efforts to overcome the resulting disillusionment quickly became the focus of state efforts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 506
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781644697344
• Artikelnr.: 62335137

Autorenporträt

David Cratis Williams is Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Florida Atlantic University. His scholarship focuses on argumentation, rhetorical theory, and criticism; he is a recognized authority on Kenneth Burke. His work on Russian political discourse began during a meeting in Russia in January 1992.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents  Acknowledgements List of Interviews and Personal Communications Note to Readers Preface Introduction to Volume One. Image and Reality: The Declining Role of Evidence in Public Discourse Part One: Kal and Cracks in the Rhetorical Wall Route R-20
Terry Graves Illustration Takahashi
Novosti Satellite Map Ogarkov Double Loop Map
The New York Times Map Credits 1. Did the United States Suppress Ground-to-Air Communications? 2. KAL 007 and the Superpowers: An International Argument 3. The KAL Tapes 4. BCAS Correspondence:
Flight 007: Was There Foul Play?
5. The Need for Evaluative Criteria: Conspiracy Argument Revisited 6. Soviet Media Tactics and the Body Politic: Prevention and Treatment of Communicable Diseases 7. When the Shoe Is on the Other Foot: Comparative Treatments of the KAL 007 and Iran Air Shootdowns 8. Of Mighty Mice and Meek Men: Contextual Reconstruction of the Iranian Airbus Shootdown 9.
007
Conspiracy or Accident? 10. Flight 007 11. Carlos the Jackal Attacks RFE/RL! Part Two: Chernobyl, Eco-Nationalism, and Loss of Rhetorical Control The Original Sarcophagus (1989) The Interior Access Door to Unit 4
(1989) A Billboard at the Rovno Nuclear Station (1996) New Secure Confinement (2019) Photo Credits 12. Chernobyl in the Soviet Media: Unintentional Ironies, Unprecedented Events 13. Redefining Glasnost in the Soviet Media: The Recontextualization of Chernobyl 14. Chernobyl: From the Ashes a New Society? 15. Nuclear Power in the USSR 16. Civilian Nuclear Power in the Commonwealth of Independent States: A Case of Cognitive Dissonance 17. Soviet News Media: Uncertainty in the Throes of Change 18. Nuclear Power and Ecological Debates in the Soviet Press, Mid-1988 to Mid-1989 19. The Final Days: The Development of Argumentative Discourse in the Soviet Union 20. Ukraine Nuclear Power Struggles for Survival 21. Nonrational Assessment of Risk and the Development of Civilian Nuclear Power 22. Ukraine, Russia, and the Question of Nuclear Safety 23. Soviet Bureaucracy and Nuclear Safety 24. Review of Two Books by David R. Marples 25. Review of Plutopia 26. Review of Plokhy, Chernobyl 27. Pseudo-Science and Potemkin-History 28. Confronting Climate Change: Assessing the Role of Nuclear Power Afterword Index Bibliography

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