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The Soviet Union's invisible weapons of mass destruction : Biopreparat's covert biological warfare programme / Anthony Rimmington.

Rimmington, Anthony, author.
2021
UG447.8
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Title
The Soviet Union's invisible weapons of mass destruction : Biopreparat's covert biological warfare programme / Anthony Rimmington.
Author
Rimmington, Anthony, author.
ISBN
9783030828820 (electronic bk.)
3030828824 (electronic bk.)
9783030828813
3030828816
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82882-0
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (1 volume) : color illustrations
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10.1007/978-3-030-82882-0 doi
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UG447.8
Dewey Decimal Classification
358.38820947
Summary
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. At its height, Biopreparat employed more than 30,000 personnel and incorporated an enormous network embracing military-focused research institutes, design centres, biowarfare pilot facilities and dual-use production plants. The secret network pursued major offensive R & D programmes, which sought to use genetic engineering techniques to create microbial strains resistant to antibiotics and with wholly new and unexpected pathogenic properties. During the mid-1980s, Biopreparat increased in size and political importance and also emerged as a major civil biopharmaceutical player in the USSR. In the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, an acute struggle for control of Biopreparats most valuable assets took place and the network was eventually broken-up and control of its facilities transferred to a myriad of state agencies and private companies. Anthony Rimmington is a former Senior Research Fellow at Birmingham Universitys 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 USSRs offensive biological warfare programme, including The Soviet Unions Agricultural Biowarfare Programme: Ploughshares to Swords (Palgrave, 2021).
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Secret History: Khrushchevs 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: Biopreparats Network of Experimental-Industrial Bases
Chapter 6: The Creation of Biopreparats Scientific Base: The R & D Complexes at Obolensk, Koltsovo 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.

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