The Cosmonaut Who Couldn’t Stop Smiling : : The Life and Legend of Yuri Gagarin / / Andrew L. Jenks.
"Let's go!" With that, the boyish, grinning Yuri Gagarin launched into space on April 12, 1961, becoming the first human being to exit Earth's orbit. The twenty-seven-year-old lieutenant colonel departed for the stars from within the shadowy world of the Soviet military-industria...
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (323 p.) :; 28 illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- ONE- Yuri Gagarin and the Many Faces of Modern Russia
- TWO-A Victor's Congress Baby
- THREE-The Industrial Boys
- FOUR-The Chief Designer
- FIVE-The Flight that Launched a Thousand Rumors
- SIX-Exegesis
- SEVEN-Homo Sovieticus
- EIGHT -Sacred Lies, Profane Truths
- NINE-Landscapes ofRussianness, 1991-2011
- Notes
- Index