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The Red Rockets' Glare is the first academic study on the birth of the Soviet space program and one of the first social histories of Soviet science. Based on many years of archival research, the book situates the birth of cosmic enthusiasm within the social and cultural upheavals of Russian…
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The rise of spaceflight in the Soviet Union came amidst a very different social and cultural context than it did in the United States. While the Soviet program operated mostly in secret, with accomplishments often reported only after their successful completion, their public reception had little to do with their importance to state officials.
This book reveals an older Russian cosmism (or cosmic mysticism) practiced by some of the founders of pre-Soviet Russian rocketry, such as Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, whose work tapped into an early wave of interest in space travel beginning around World War I. Public support and enthusiasm for…
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