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  • Being young in 1986 in Pripyat, the satellite town of the Chernobyl nuclear power station 22/04/2024
    Laurent COUMEL*
    Being young in 1986 in Pripyat, the satellite town of the Chernobyl nuclear power station
    The author of 24 heures de la vie à Tchernobyl  (PUF, 2024) looks back at some little-known aspects of daily life in the Soviet Union at the start of the reforms launched by Mikhail Gorbachev. Is it easy to be young? It is the title of a documentary film shot in Riga in the summer of 1986 and released in Soviet cinemas in early 1987. It shows a group of secondary school boys and girls, some of whom (all of them ...
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