Red cosmos [electronic resource] : K.E. Tsiolkovskii, grandfather of Soviet rocketry / James T. Andrews.
Series: Centennial of flight series ; no. 18.Publication details: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, c2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: xviii, 147 p. : illISBN:- 9781603441179 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1603441174 (cloth : alk. paper)
- K.E. Tsiolkovskii, grandfather of Soviet rocketry
- 629.4092 B 22
- TL789.85.T8 A53 2009eb
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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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.