HIS 100 Module Five Activity
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HIS 100 Module Five Activity Template: Historical Interpretations
Replace the bracketed text below with your responses.
Identify the topic you chose to explore:
Chernobyl
Describe how exploring your research question improved your understanding of the historical roots of
your current event.
My understanding of the Soviets intentions and mindset was limited before this project but as an
effect of looking deeper into Chernobyl I gained a larger understanding of this. The Soviets, in all
regards, regulated the media and what appeared and what did not appear in both local and
foreign newspapers and on television. As a result of the cold war, information was at a premium
and they wanted to contain these mishaps. When Chernobyl, as well as other plants were
created, the USSR deliberately rushed and sacrificed the wellbeing and health in order to cut
corners, save time, and beat the United States in a race quite similar to the race to the moon.
Explain how biased perspectives influence what is known about both your historical and current events.
Originally my chosen current event was the Ohio Train Derailment in 2023 that resulted in
hazardous materials being leaked. After analysis, this event really did not have much in common
with Chernobyl. I am now choosing to focus more on the current conflict between Russia and
the Ukraine. The Soviets and the USSR, which now in current times is essentially Russia, still
considers the controlling of information and power to be paramount.
This seems to be a major
part of the conflict as Ukraine is trying to break free of this while Russia continues to want to
position its’ thumb down on Ukraine to control it and keep it under its power.
Propose how the narrative about your historical event might change if it were told from a missing
perspective.
The narrative of the event at Chernobyl could change if we were able to look at it more from the
perspective of the scientists and management who worked at the Chernobyl plant. They
certainly took the brunt of the blame at the time and especially in the narrative playing out in
the media and they were essentially silenced. It would also change if we knew what had
occurred moments before and what was going on in the minds of the two scientists closest to
the disaster who passed away.
Propose how the narrative about your current event might change if it were told from a missing
perspective.
The current narrative about the current Russia-Ukraine conflict may change if it were told from
the missing perspective of the Russian soldiers who were camped at the Chernobyl nuclear
disaster zone during the invasion of Ukraine. It would certainly draw attention to this site and
elude to whether any of the Russians or Ukrainians were uneasy and anxious about the radiation
levels that are still in this area to this day. Much like how Alexievich’s “Voices from Chernobyl”
looks at the event of what happened to the citizens in the ten years that followed, I can’t help
but wonder if being back in this zone will affect these soldiers or their family’s health ten years
down the line.
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