The cosmonaut who couldn't stop smiling the life and legend of Yuri Gagarin

"'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-ind...

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主要作者: Jenks, Andrew L. (Author)
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: DeKalb, IL 2014
叢編:NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies.
在線閱讀:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv180h6n2
書本目錄:
  • Yuri Gagarin and the many faces of modern Russia
  • A victor's congress baby
  • The industrial boys
  • The chief designer
  • The flight that launched a thousand rumors
  • Exegesis
  • Homo sovieticus
  • Sacred lies, profane truths
  • Landscapes of Russianness, 1991-2011