
Red Rockets' Glare
Spaceflight and the Russian Imagination, 1857–1957
Cambridge Centennial of Flight
2010 m.
Descrição
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.
