Red cosmos [electronic resource] : K.E. Tsiolkovskii, grandfather of Soviet rocketry / James T. Andrews.
By: Andrews, James T.
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BookSeries: Centennial of flight series: no. 18.Publisher: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, c2009Edition: 1st ed.Description: xviii, 147 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Other title: K.E. Tsiolkovskii, grandfather of Soviet rocketry.Subject(s): �T�Siolkovski�i, K. (Konstantin), 1857-1935 | Aerospace engineers -- Soviet Union -- Biography | Authors, Russian -- Biography | Authors, Soviet -- Biography | Science fiction, Soviet -- History and criticism | Astronautics -- Russia -- History | Astronautics -- Social aspects -- Soviet UnionGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 629.4092 | B Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 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.
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