Red cosmos (Record no. 79346)
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| 000 -LEADER | |
|---|---|
| fixed length control field | 02753nam a2200445 a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 629.4092 |
| -- | B |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Andrews, James T., |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Red cosmos |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | College Station : |
| Name of publisher | Texas A & M University Press, |
| Year of publication | c2009. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xviii, 147 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill. |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Centennial of flight series ; |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Aerospace engineers |
| Topical Term | Authors, Russian |
| Topical Term | Authors, Soviet |
| Topical Term | Science fiction, Soviet |
| Topical Term | Astronautics |
| Topical Term | Astronautics |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10411771 |
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