RIPSS Reading Circle: Mariana Budjeryn's 'Inheriting the Bomb'

The RIPSS Reading Circle is a space for graduate students and early career scholars to critically discuss new and innovative scholarship on Soviet, Central and East European, Baltic, Caucasian and Central Asian history with a focus on decolonising methodologies and non-Russian experiences of the Soviet era. It also provides a forum for presenting and receiving feedback on research-in-progress.

In this session, we will be discussing these books:

Mariana Budjeryn, Inheriting the Bomb: The Collapse of the USSR and the Nuclear Disarmament of Ukraine (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023).

Participants should read Chapter 3: The Road to Lisbon: Proliferation vs Succession (62-83)

And:

Togzhan Kassenova, Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022).

Participants should read Chapter 10: Farewell to Bombs (208-42); and the Epilogue, Reimagining the Atomic Steppe (243-75).

Enquiries: Dr Iryna Skubii: aXJ5bmEgISBza3ViaWkgfCB1bmltZWxiICEgZWR1ICEgYXU=

You may also like the following events from Friends of History at Melbourne:

• Next Wednesday, 24th September, 08:00 am, 2025 Ernest Scott Prize Lecture: A/Prof. Jane Carey on the History of Australian Women in Science in Parkville

Also check out other Business events in Parkville.