The Red Rockets' Glare: Spaceflight and the Russian Imagination, 1857–1957

(Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)

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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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Forlag Cambridge University Press
Forfatter Asif A. (Fordham University Siddiqi
Type Bog
Format Paperback / softback
Sprog Engelsk
Udgivelsesdato 20-02-2014
Første udgivelsesår 2014
Serie Cambridge Centennial of Flight
Illustrationer 2 Tables, unspecified; 1 Maps; 28 Halftones, unspecified; 5 Line drawings, unspecified
Originalsprog United Kingdom
Sideantal 418
Indbinding Paperback / softback
Forlag Cambridge University Press
Sideoplysninger 418 pages, 2 Tables, unspecified; 1 Maps; 28 Halftones, unspecified; 5 Line drawings, unspecified
Mål 154 x 229 x 32
ISBN-13 / EAN-13 9781107639324