Slava Gerovitch

Soviet Space Mythologies (eBook, ePUB)

Public Images, Private Memories, and the Making of a Cultural Identity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Soviet Space Mythologies explores the history of the Soviet human space program within a political and cultural context, giving particular attention to the two professional groupsspace engineers and cosmonautswho secretly built and publicly represented the program. Drawing on recent scholarship on memory and identity formation, this book shows how both the myths of Soviet official history and privately circulating counter-myths have served as instruments of collective memory and professional identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822980964
• Artikelnr.: 43814829

Autorenporträt

Slava Gerovitch is a lecturer in the history of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics and Voices of the Soviet Space Program: Cosmonauts, Soldiers, and Engineers Who Took the USSR into Space.