in the radioactive hazards of nuclear facilities, decommissioned nuclear submarines, and the processing of nuclear waste or spent nuclear fuel. It was also known in the early 1990s that the USSR had transported radioactive material to the Barents Sea and Kara Sea, which was later confirmed by the Russian parliament. The crash of the K-141 Kursk submarine in 2000 in the west further raised concerns. In the past, there were accidents involving submarines K-19, K-8, a K-129, K-27, K-219 and K-278 Komsomolets. See also Baltic states under Soviet rule (1944–1991) Cold War Warsaw Pact North Atlantic Treaty Organization Communism Eastern Bloc Nostalgia for the Soviet Union Ideocracy Index of Soviet Union–related articles Religion in the Soviet Union Korenizatsiya Neo-Sovietism Soviet patriotism Russian Empire Orphans in the Soviet Union Post-Soviet states Soviet Empire Second Cold War Notes References Bibliography Ostrovsky, Alexander (2010). Кто поставил Горбачёва? (Who put Gorbachev?) — М.: Алгоритм-Эксмо, 2010. — 544 с. ISBN 978-5-699-40627-2 Ostrovsky, Alexander (2011). Глупость или измена? Расследование гибели СССР. (Stupidity or treason? Investigation of the death of the USSR) М.: Форум, Крымский мост-9Д, 2011. — 864 с. ISBN 978-5-89747-068-6 Further reading Surveys A Country Study: Soviet Union (Former) . Library of Congress Country Studies, 1991. Brown, Archie, et al., eds.: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union (Cambridge University Press, 1982). historiographical essay that covers the scholarship of the three major schools, totalitarianism, revisionism, and post-revisionism. Gilbert, Martin. Routledge Atlas of Russian History (4th ed. 2007) excerpt and text search. Gorodetsky, Gabriel, ed. Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917–1991: A Retrospective (2014). Grant, Ted. Russia, from Revolution to Counter-Revolution, London, Well Red Publications, 1997. Hosking, Geoffrey. The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within (2nd ed. Harvard UP 1992) 570 pp. Howe, G. Melvyn: The Soviet Union: A Geographical Survey 2nd. edn. (Estover, UK: MacDonald and Evans, 1983). Kort, Michael. The Soviet Colossus: History and Aftermath (7th ed. 2010) 502 pp. McCauley, Martin. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union (2007), 522 pages. Moss, Walter G. A History of Russia. Vol. 2: Since 1855. 2d ed. Anthem Press, 2005. Nove, Alec. An Economic History of the USSR, 1917–1991. (3rd ed. 1993) online free to borrow. Pipes, Richard. Communism: A History (2003). Pons, Silvio, and Stephen A. Smith, eds. The Cambridge History of Communism (Volume 1): World Revolution and Socialism in One Country, 1917–1941 (2017) excerpt Naimark, Norman Silvio Pons