Cosmonaut Who Couldn't Stop Smiling The Life and Legend of Yuri Gagarin

Name: Cosmonaut Who Couldn't Stop Smiling The Life and Legend of Yuri Gagarin
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ISBN: 9780875804477

ISBN-10: 0875804470

ISBN-13: 9780875804477

Edition: 2012

Authors: Andrew L. Jenks

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“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-industrial complex. Barbed wires, no-entry placards, armed guards, false identities, mendacious maps, and a myriad of secret signs had hidden Gagarin from prying outsiders—not even his friends or family knew what he had been up to. Coming less than four years after the Russians launched Sputnik into orbit, Gagarin’s voyage was cause for another round of capitalist shock and Soviet rejoicing. The Cosmonaut Who Couldn’t Stop…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 5/15/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 318
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Acknowledgments



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


Notes


Index