Item COLD WAR 28/54 - Transcript of interview with factory worker Maria Stepanova, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Maria Stepanova, worker in an electro-mechanical plant, Moscow, USSR, and Soviet civil defence trainer, [1941-1975], relating to Soviet civil defence training programmes, [1960-1969]; the development of the Moscow Metro system as public shelters against nuclear attack, [1960-1969]; Soviet provision of nuclear shelters in industrial complexes, 1965; the ideological differences between the USSR and the USA, [1960-1969]; the benefits of Soviet experience during the Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945, in the development of civil defence measures, [1960-1969]; the financial burden of the nuclear arms race on the USSR, 1945-1991. 15pp