The Red Rockets' Glare : Spaceflight and the Russian Imagination, 1857–1957
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Centennial of Flight
ISBN-10
1107639328
ISBN-13
9781107639324
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 20th, 2014
Print length
418 Pages
Weight
634 grams
Dimensions
15.40 x 22.90 x 3.20 cms
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This book situates the birth of cosmic enthusiasm within the social and cultural upheavals of Russian and Soviet history, arguing that Sputnik was the outcome of both large-scale state imperatives to harness science and technology and populist phenomena that frequently owed little to the whims and needs of the state apparatus.
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