The Cosmonaut Who Couldn't Stop Smiling
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The Cosmonaut Who Couldn't Stop Smiling by Andrew L Jenks
u201cLet's go! u201d 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...This book is an outstanding piece of scholarshipThe author has drawn on the best of Soviet historiography to craft a multifaceted biography of a man whose obscure origins made him appear to be a malleable public personality and with an easily masked face. Dr. Jenks has done as much for the scholarship of Soviet-era biography as historian Nell Irvin Painter has done for uncovering the lives of slaves in the United States.
* The Russian Review *This is an intelligent and balanced biography that combines well the cultural history of space technology with Soviet and Russian history. Highly recommended. Academic, professional, and general audiences, all levels.
* Choice *Andrew L. Jenks is associate professor of history at California State University, Long Beach, and the author of The Perils of Progress and Russia in a Box.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781609090524 |
| ISBN 10 | 1609090527 |
| Title | The Cosmonaut Who Couldn't Stop Smiling |
| Author | Andrew L Jenks |
| Series | Niu Series In Slavic East European And Eurasian Studies |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cornell University Press |
| Year published | 2012-05-15 |
| Number of pages | 323 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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