HIS 100 Module Four Activity Narratives

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HIS 100 Module Four Activity Template: Historical Narratives Locate an additional secondary source relevant to your historical event. Use all four of your sources (two primary and two secondary) to answer the questions below. Replace the bracketed text with your responses. Identify the topic you chose to explore:  Chernobyl Attempt to write the APA style citations for your four sources. Include links to each source. You will not be penalized for incorrect citation format.  Alexievich, S. (2006). Voices from Chernobyl: The oral history of a nuclear disaster (K. Gessen, Trans.). Picador. (Original work published 1997). https://ebookcentral-proquest- com.ezproxy.snhu.edu/lib/snhu-ebooks/detail.action?docID=6840804  Abramowitz, M. (1986, May 2). INR information memorandum from Morton Abramowitz to the Secretary of State: Estimate of fatalities at Chernobyl reactor accident. National Security Archive. https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/19496-national-security-archive-doc-9-inr-information  Schmid, S. D. (2015). Chernobyl: From accident to sarcophagus. In Producing power: The pre- Chernobyl history of the Soviet nuclear Industry (pp. 127–160). The MIT Press. https://www-jstor- org.ezproxy.snhu.edu/stable/j.ctt13x0ppk.11  Geist, E. (2015). Political fallout: The failure of emergency management at Chernobyl. Slavic Review, 74(1), 104–126. https://www-jstor- org.ezproxy.snhu.edu/stable/10.5612/slavicreview.74.1.104 Compare the narratives presented in your primary and secondary sources relevant to your historical event.  My primary sources look both at the stories of people who lived through it firsthand as well as the Soviet government’s attempt to downplay and cover-up the severity of the event. Even though one is a book compiled of 35 firsthand accounts and the other is a memo from the Soviet Union intercepted by US intelligence, both offer glimpses and snapshots into actual history that took place. My secondary source by Schmid gives an in depth look and analysis of the incident that caused the nuclear meltdown in the first place. My other secondary source by Geist investigates the political and institutional reasoning and judgement that stopped the USSR from acting properly to protect the people from the consequences of this nuclear disaster. Describe one narrative that has significantly influenced the contemporary understanding of your historical event.  One narrative that has significantly influenced the understanding of my historical event is “Voices from Chernobyl” by Svetlana Alexievich. She purposefully spent time traveling and visiting with different individuals to gather and collect a diverse variety of tales from those who were there to live it and those who were affected in the aftermath of the nuclear meltdown. This

collection helped to expose the real truth of what happened at Chernobyl and the effect on its people not just immediately after the event but in the ten years that followed. She wanted to give these people a voice to be heard worldwide and she succeeded in doing so. Explain how the chosen narrative helps you better understand your historical research question. Please provide your revised research question and then explain how the chosen narrative helps you better understand your historical event.  This chosen narrative gives me a direct link to my historical research question. This work looks at many different people who experienced the same event and how it continued to affect them in the ten years that followed.  Revised Question: How was the human population affected in the ten years immediately after the nuclear event?

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