MACMILLAN Soviet Space Culture: Cosmic Enthusiasm in Socialist Societies

Starting with the first man-made satellite 'Sputnik' in 1957 and culminating four years later with the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, space became a new utopian horizon. This book explores the profound repercussions of the Soviet space exploration program on culture and everyday life in Eastern Europe, especially in the Soviet Union itself. About the Author ANNA EREMEEVA Professor of History and Museum Studies, Krasnodar State University of Culture and Arts, Russia SLAVA GEROVITCH Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA THOMAS GROB Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literatures, Basel University, Switzerland MICHAEL HAGEMEISTER Professor of East European History, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany IINA KOHONEN Researcher and Doctoral Student, Aalto University, School of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland ANNELI PORRI Visiting Associate Professor, Photography department, the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia ANDREI ROGATCHEVSKI Senior Lecturer in Russian, the University of Glasgow, UK VLADIMIR SADYM PR-manager, the Interregional Distributive Grid Company of the South, Krasnodar, Russia MATTHIAS SCHWARTZ Research Fellow and Lecturer, the Institute for East-European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany ASIF A. SIDDIQI Assistant Professor of History, Fordham University, New York, USA LEWIS SIEGELBAUM Professor of Modern Russian History, Michigan State University, USA VICTORIA SMOLKIN Assistant Professor of Russian History, Wesleyan University, Connecticut, USA ROSHANNA SYLVESTER Associate Professor of History, DePaul University, Chicago, USA RADINA VU?ETI? Assistant at the General Modern History, Department of History, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia