Soviet Union’s Invisible Weapons of Mass Destruction

Biopreparat's Covert Biological Warfare Programme

AvAnthony Rimmington

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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This book focuses on Biopreparat, the Soviet agency created in 1974, which spearheaded the largest and most sophisticated biological warfare programme the world has ever seen.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-10-14
Mått:148 x 210 x 16 mm
Vikt:376 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:269
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030828844

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Anthony Rimmington is a former Senior Research Fellow at Birmingham University’s Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies, UK. He has published widely on the civil life sciences sector in the post-Soviet states and on the USSR’s offensive biological warfare programme, including The Soviet Union’s Agricultural Biowarfare Programme: Ploughshares to Swords (Palgrave, 2021).

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Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Secret History: Khrushchev’s Creation of Soviet Reserve Biological Warfare Mobilization Facilities within Civil Production Plants in the 1950s and 1960s.- Chapter 3: Glavmikrobioprom and the Emergence of the Soviet Microbiological Industry.- Chapter 4: Genesis: The Creation of Biopreparat.- Chapter 5: Anthrax on the Kazakh Steppe: Biopreparat’s Network of Experimental-Industrial Bases.- Chapter 6: The Creation of Biopreparat’s Scientific Base: The R&D Complexes at Obolensk, Kol’tsovo and Leningrad.- Chapter 7: A Roadmap to the Future? The Emergence of Biopreparat as a Major Civil Biopharmaceutical Player.- Chapter 8: A Brave New World: Building Capitalism in the New Russia and the Struggle for Control of Biopreparat.- Chapter 9: Conclusion.