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The Red Rockets' Glare: Spaceflight and the Russian Imagination, 1857–1957 - Cambridge Centennial of Flight Siddiqi, Asif A. (Fordham University, New York)
The Red Rockets' Glare: Spaceflight and the Russian Imagination, 1857–1957 - Cambridge Centennial of Flight
Siddiqi, Asif A. (Fordham University, New York)
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.
418 pages, 33 b/w illus. 1 map 2 tables
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | February 20, 2014 |
| ISBN13 | 9781107639324 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 418 |
| Dimensions | 229 × 154 × 32 mm · 634 g |
| Language | English |