Red cosmos: K.E. Tsiolkovskii, grandfather of Soviet rocketry
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1. Verfasser: Andrews, James T. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: College Station Texas A & M University Press c2009
Schriftenreihe:Centennial of flight series no. 18
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 147 p.)
ISBN:1603443606
9781603443609

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