Soviet Space Culture

Starting with the first man-made satellite 'Sputnik' in 1957 and culminating four years later with the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, space became a new utopian horizon. This book explores the profound repercussions of the Soviet space exploration program on culture and everyday life in Eastern Europe, especially in the Soviet Union itself.

ANNA EREMEEVA Professor of History and Museum Studies, Krasnodar State University of Culture and Arts, Russia
SLAVA GEROVITCH Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
THOMAS GROB Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literatures, Basel University, Switzerland
MICHAEL HAGEMEISTER Professor of East European History, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
IINA KOHONEN Researcher and Doctoral Student, Aalto University, School of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland
ANNELI PORRI Visiting Associate Professor, Photography department, the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia
ANDREI ROGATCHEVSKI Senior Lecturer in Russian, the University of Glasgow, UK
VLADIMIR SADYM PR-manager, the Interregional Distributive Grid Company of the South, Krasnodar, Russia
MATTHIAS SCHWARTZ Research Fellow and Lecturer, the Institute for East-European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
ASIF A. SIDDIQI Assistant Professor of History, Fordham University, New York, USA
LEWIS SIEGELBAUM Professor of Modern Russian History, Michigan State University, USA
VICTORIA SMOLKIN Assistant Professor of Russian History, Wesleyan University, Connecticut, USA
ROSHANNA SYLVESTER Associate Professor of History, DePaul University, Chicago, USA
RADINA VU?ETI? Assistant at the General Modern History, Department of History, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia