Slava Gerovitch's Soviet Space Mythologies: Public Images, Private Memories, PDF

By Slava Gerovitch

From the beginning, the Soviet human house software had an id concern. have been cosmonauts heroic pilots steerage their craft during the risks of house, or have been they mere passengers driving correctly aboard totally computerized machines? Tensions among Soviet cosmonauts and area engineers have been mirrored not just within the inner improvement of the distance application but in addition in Soviet propaganda that wavered among praising bold heroes and ideal applied sciences. Soviet house Mythologies explores the historical past of the Soviet human area software inside of a political and cultural context, giving specific consciousness to the 2 specialist groups—space engineers and cosmonauts—who secretly equipped and publicly represented this system. Drawing on fresh scholarship on reminiscence and id formation, this e-book exhibits how either the myths of Soviet reliable heritage and privately circulating counter-myths have served as tools of collective reminiscence id. those practices formed the evolving cultural photo of the gap age in renowned Soviet mind's eye. Soviet area Mythologies presents a useful source for students and scholars of area heritage, background of know-how, and Soviet (and post-Soviet) history.

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