TY  - BOOK
AU  - Andrews,James T.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Red cosmos: K.E. Tsiolkovskii, grandfather of Soviet rocketry 
T2  - Centennial of flight series
SN  - 9781603441179 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - TL789.85.T8 A53 2009eb
U1  - 629.4092B 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - College Station
PB  - Texas A & M University Press
KW  - �T�Siolkovski�i, K.
KW  - Aerospace engineers
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Biography
KW  - Authors, Russian
KW  - Authors, Soviet
KW  - Science fiction, Soviet
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Astronautics
KW  - Russia
KW  - History
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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
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