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Aerospace engineers, Astronautics, Authors, Russian, Authors, Soviet, Biography, History, History and criticism, Russian Authors, Science fiction, Soviet, Social aspects, Social aspects of Astronautics, Soviet Authors, Soviet Science fiction, Authors, russian, Science fiction, history and criticism, Astronautics, history, Soviet union, social conditions, Authors, biography, Soviet union, biographyPlaces
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Red cosmos: K.E. Tsiolkovskii, grandfather of Soviet rocketry
2009, Texas A & M University Press, Texas A&M University Press
in English
- 1st ed.
1603441174 9781603441179
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Table of Contents
Prelude before Tsiolkovskii: Russian rocketry from Peter the Great to the nineteenth century
Introduction envisioning the cosmos: K. E. Tsiolkovskii, Russian public culture, and the mythology of Soviet cosmonautics, 1857-1964
Beginnings, teaching science in a provincial context: Tsiolkovskii's years in the Russian locale, 1857-1917
Dreaming of the cosmos: early scientific and technical experimentation in pre-1917 Kaluga, Russia
Getting serious about rocket flight in revolutionary Russia, 1917-1928
Cross-fertilizing futuristic literary genres: utopian science fiction or didactic popular technology in revolutionary Russia, 1890-1928
Stalin, Khrushchev, and the spaceman: technology, Soviet national identity, and the memorialization of a local hero in the dawn of Sputnik, 1928-1957
Epilogue and conclusion: chudo (wonder) or chudak (crank), the legacy of Tsiolkovskii in the Khrushchev era and beyond 1964.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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