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Soviet Space Culture

Cosmic Enthusiasm in Socialist Societies

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Eva Maurer

    1. Universities of Fribourg, Switzerland

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  2. Julia Richers

    1. History Department, University of Basel, Switzerland

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  3. Monica Rüthers

    1. Hamburg University, Germany

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  4. Carmen Scheide

    1. Historical Institute, Basel University, Switzerland

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Eva Maurer, Julia Richers, Monica Rüthers, Carmen Scheide
      Pages 1-9

  3. Space is the Place! Writing About Soviet Space Exploration

    1. Space is the Place! Writing About Soviet Space Exploration

      • Julia Richers
      Pages 10-20

  4. Spirituality, Transcendence and Soviet Utopianism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-22
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    2. Introduction to Part I

      • Julia Richers, Eva Maurer
      Pages 23-26

    3. The Conquest of Space and the Bliss of the Atoms: Konstantin Tsiolkovskii

      • Michael Hagemeister
      Pages 27-41

    4. Into the Void: Philosophical Fantasy and Fantastic Philosophy in the Works of Stanisław Lem and the Strugatskii Brothers

      • Thomas Grob
      Pages 42-56

    5. The Contested Skies

      • Victoria Smolkin-Rothrock
      Pages 57-78

  5. Remembering Space, Constructing Heroes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-80
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    2. Introduction to Part II

      • Carmen Scheide, Monica Rüthers
      Pages 81-84

    3. Memories of Space and Spaces of Memory

      • Slava Gerovitch
      Pages 85-102

    4. The Heroic and the Ordinary

      • Iina Kohonen
      Pages 103-120

    5. ‘Let’s Find Out Where the Cosmonaut School Is’

      • Roshanna P. Sylvester
      Pages 121-138

    6. The Regional Dimension of Space Propaganda

      • Anna Eremeeva
      Pages 139-150

    7. Propaganda of the Historical and Cultural Heritage of Cosmonautics

      • Vladimir Sadym
      Pages 151-163

  6. Performing Space in World Politics: Communications and Mediality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-166
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    2. Introduction to Part III

      • Monica Rüthers
      Pages 167-169

    3. Sputnik Goes to Brussels

      • Lewis H. Siegelbaum
      Pages 170-187

    4. Soviet Cosmonauts and American Astronauts in Yugoslavia

      • Radina Vučetić
      Pages 188-205

    5. Children and the Cosmos as Projects of the Future and Ambassadors of Soviet Leadership

      • Monica Rüthers
      Pages 206-225
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About this book

Starting with the first man-made satellite 'Sputnik' in 1957 and culminating four years later with the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, space became a new utopian horizon. This book explores the profound repercussions of the Soviet space exploration program on culture and everyday life in Eastern Europe, especially in the Soviet Union itself.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Universities of Fribourg, Switzerland

    Eva Maurer

  • History Department, University of Basel, Switzerland

    Julia Richers

  • Hamburg University, Germany

    Monica Rüthers

  • Historical Institute, Basel University, Switzerland

    Carmen Scheide

About the editors

ANNA EREMEEVA Professor of History and Museum Studies, Krasnodar State University of Culture and Arts, Russia SLAVA GEROVITCH Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA THOMAS GROB Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literatures, Basel University, Switzerland MICHAEL HAGEMEISTER Professor of East European History, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany IINA KOHONEN Researcher and Doctoral Student, Aalto University, School of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland ANNELI PORRI Visiting Associate Professor, Photography department, the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia ANDREI ROGATCHEVSKI Senior Lecturer in Russian, the University of Glasgow, UK VLADIMIR SADYM PR-manager, the Interregional Distributive Grid Company of the South, Krasnodar, Russia MATTHIAS SCHWARTZ Research Fellow and Lecturer, the Institute for East-European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany ASIF A. SIDDIQI Assistant Professor of History, Fordham University, New York, USA LEWIS SIEGELBAUM Professor of Modern Russian History, Michigan State University, USA VICTORIA SMOLKIN Assistant Professor of Russian History, Wesleyan University, Connecticut, USA ROSHANNA SYLVESTER Associate Professor of History, DePaul University, Chicago, USA RADINA VU?ETI? Assistant at the General Modern History, Department of History, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia

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