Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. “Why Are We Telling Lies?” The Construction of Soviet Space History Myths
2. Stalin's Rocket Designers' Leap Into Space: The Technical Intelligentsia Faces the Thaw
3. “New Soviet Man" Inside Machine: Human Engineering, Spacecraft Design, and the Construction of Communism
4. The Human in the Arms of Technology: Gagarin’s Flight in Documents and Stories
5. Human-Machine Issues, the Cosmonaut Profession, and Competing Visions of Spaceflight
6. The Human Inside a Propaganda Machine: The Public Image and Professional Identity of Soviet Cosmonauts
7. Remembering the Soviet Space Age: Myth and Identity in Post-Soviet Culture
Notes
Bibliography
Index