The Kremlin and the cosmos.
Nicholas Daniloff 1934-
ספרכותר |
Into the cosmos : space exploration and Soviet culture / edited by James T. Andrews and Asif A. Siddiqi. |
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מהדורה |
1st ed. |
מוציא לאור |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press |
שנה |
2011 |
הערות |
Includes index. Includes bibliographical references and index. English |
הערת תוכן ותקציר |
Intro -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Space Exploration in the Soviet Context // James T. Andrews and Asif A. Siddiqi -- Part 1. The Space Project: Cultural Context and Historical Background -- 1. The Cultural Spaces of the Soviet Cosmos // Alexei Kojevnikov -- 2. Getting Ready for Krushchev's Sputnik: Russian Popular Culture and National Markers at the Dawn of the Space Age // James T. Andrews -- Part II. Myth and Reality in the Soviet Space Program -- 3. Cosmic Contradictions: Popular Enthusiasm and Secrecy in the Soviet Space Program // Asif A. Siddiqi -- 4. The Human inside a Propaganda Machine: The Public Image and Professional Identity of Soviet Cosmonauts // Slava Gerovitch -- 5. The Sincere Deceiver: Yuri Gagarin and the Search for a Higher Truth // Andrew Jenks -- 6. Cold War Celebrity and the Courageous Canine Scout: The Life and Times of Soviet Space Dogs // Amy Nelson -- Part III. The Soviet Space Program and the Cultural Front -- 7. Cosmic Enlightenment: Scientific Atheism and the Soviet Conquest of Space // Victoria Smolkin-Rothrock -- 8. She Orbits over the Sex Barrier: Soviet Girls and the Tereshkova Moment // Roshanna P. Sylvester -- 9. From the Kitchen into Orbit: The Convergence of Human Spaceflight and Krushchev's Nascent Consumerism // Cathleen S. Lewis -- 10. Cold War Theaters: Cosmonaut Titov at the Berlin Wall // Heater L. Gumbert -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index. |
סדרה |
Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies |
היקף החומר |
1 online resource (343 pages) : illustrations. |
שפה |
אנגלית |
שנת זכויות יוצרים |
©2011 |
מספר מערכת |
997010711328505171 |
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