Before the COVID-19 pandemic the mortality crisis which affected Eastern Europe and the
republics of the former USSR at the time of the transition to a market economy was arguably the
major peacetime health crisis of recent decades. Chernobyl and the Mortality Crisis in Eastern
Europe and the Old USSR discusses the importance of that crisis surprisingly underplayed in
the scientific literature and presents evidence suggesting a potential role of the Chernobyl
disaster among the causes contributing to it.
