Soviet space mythologies : public images, private memories, and the making of a cultural identity / Slava Gerovitch.

• Ackowledgements -- Introduction: Creating Memories of the Space Age -- "Why Are We Telling Lies?": The Construction of Soviet Space History Myths -- Stalin's Rocket Designers' Leap into Space: The Technical Intelligentsia Faces the Thaw -- "New Soviet Man" inside Machine: Human Engineering, Spacecraft Design, and the Construction of Communism -- The Human in the Arms of Technology: Gagarin's Flight in Documents and Stories -- Human-Machine Issues, the Cosmonaut Profession, and Competing Visions of Spaceflight -- The Human inside a Propaganda Machine: The Public Image and Professional Identity of Soviet Cosmonauts -- Remembering the Soviet Space Age: Myth and Identity in Post-Soviet Culture.

• "From the start, the Soviet human space program had an identity crisis. Were cosmonauts heroic pilots steering their craft through the dangers of space, or were they mere passengers riding safely aboard fully automated machines? Tensions between Soviet cosmonauts and space engineers were reflected not only in the internal development of the space program but also in Soviet propaganda that wavered between praising daring heroes and flawless technologies. 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 groups--space engineers and cosmonauts--who 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. These practices shaped the evolving cultural image of the space age in popular Soviet imagination. Soviet Space Mythologies provides a valuable resource for scholars and students of space history, history of technology, and Soviet (and post-Soviet) history"-- 

Ämnesord

Propaganda  -- historia (sao)

Astronautics and state  -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Astronautics  -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Propaganda, Soviet  -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

SCIENCE / History.  (bisacsh)

HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.  (bisacsh)

Astronautics.  (fast)

Astronautics and state.  (fast)

Propaganda, Soviet.  (fast)

Astronauter  -- historia (sao)

Rymdfärder  -- historia (sao)

Raumfahrt. 

Astronaut. 

Ingenieur. 

Mythos. 

Kollektives Gedächtnis. 

Identitätsentwicklung. 

Soviet Union.  (fast)

Sowjetunion. 

Sovjetunionen 

1900-talet  (sao)

1900 - 1999  (fast)

Genre

History.  (fast)

Klassifikation

TL789.8.S65 (LCC)

629.450947/09045 (DDC)

SCI034000 HIS032000 (bisacsh)

55.61 (bcl)

Prde (kssb/8 (machine generated))