About the book: 2021 / The biggest man-made disaster in history, the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant claimed thousands of lives, brought down the main religious cult of the 20th century - faith in technology progress and became a symbol of the failure of the entire Soviet project. A detailed history of the disaster and its environmental and political consequences is in the new book by Harvard University professor Sergei Plokhy. Publishing layout saved in PDF A4 format.