Histories left behind by the dispossessed
‘Dispatches from Dystopia’ recounts tales of people on the margins of society
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Chernobyl’s “exclusion zone” includes this abandoned factory. Like the places historian Kate Brown visited, the factory now stands empty of valuables.
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