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Picturing the cosmos : a visual history of early Soviet space endeavor /

Picturing the Cosmos elucidates the complex relationship between visual propaganda and censorship in the Soviet Union in the Cold War period, focusing on the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing from a comprehensive corpus of rarely seen photographs and other visual phenomena narrating the Soviet Union's 1...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kohonen, Iina (Author)
Other Authors: Gerovitch, Slava (writer of foreword.), Butters, Albion M. (Translator), Hyytiäinen, Tiina (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bristol, UK ; Chicago, USA : Intellect, 2017.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. A slash across the heavens
  • 3. Travelers in the void
  • 4. Story of the heroic conquest of space
  • 5. A completely ordinary hero
  • 6. The housebroken hero
  • 7. The tormented hero
  • 8. Conclusions.