TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lewis,Cathleen S.
TI  - Cosmonaut: a cultural history 
SN  - 9781683403944
AV  - TL789.8.R8 L49 2023
U1  - 629.40947 23/eng/20230109
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Gainesville
PB  - University of Florida Press
KW  - Astronautics
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - History
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Astronauts
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- The Birth of the Cosmonaut: "Real Cosmonaut Lives" as a Guide to Youth, the Nation, and the World -- The Women: The Collison of Expectations in Domestic and International Politics -- New Cultures of the Cosmonaut: Collectibles, Monuments and Film -- A Removal and Three Deaths: The Declining Official Need for Heroes -- Outpost in the Near Frontier: Orbiting Space Stations during the Era of Stagnation -- Remembrance of Hopes Past: Nostalgia and Editing Public History -- Epilogue
N2  - "Examining material and cultural representations of the cosmonaut program, Cathleen Lewis discusses how the public image of the Soviet cosmonaut developed beginning in the 1950s and the ways this icon has been reinterpreted throughout the years and in contemporary Russia"--; "How the public image of the Soviet cosmonaut was designed and reimagined over timeIn this book, Cathleen Lewis discusses how the public image of the Soviet cosmonaut developed beginning in the 1950s and the ways this icon has been reinterpreted throughout the years and in contemporary Russia. Compiling material and cultural representations of the cosmonaut program, Lewis provides a new perspective on the story of Soviet spaceflight, highlighting how the government has celebrated figures such as Yuri Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova through newspapers, radio, parades, monuments, museums, films, and even postage stamps and lapel pins. Lewis's analysis shows that during the Space Race, Nikita Khrushchev mobilized cosmonaut stories and images to symbolize the forward-looking Soviet state and distract from the costs of the Cold War. Public perceptions shifted after the first Soviet spaceflight fatality and failure to reach the Moon, yet cosmonaut imagery was still effective propaganda, evolving through the USSR's collapse in 1991 and seen today in Vladimir Putin's government cooperation for a film on the 1985 rescue of the Salyut 7 space station. Looking closely at the process through which Russians continue to reexamine their past, Lewis argues that the cultural memory of spaceflight remains especially potent among other collective Soviet memories"--
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