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  95–97, 99, 104, 119, 163, 166, 184–85,

  330  Index

  Titov, German, ( cont.) 188–89, 225, 236,

  Veterok (dog), 145

  249–61

  Vietnam, 93

  Titova, Tamara, 314n58

  Vinogradova, Dusia, 208

  Tolstoi, Aleksei, 35

  Voinovich, Vladimir, Moscow 2042, 194

  Tolubko, Vladimir, 61

  Vokrug sveta (Around the World) (journal),

  Tribüne (newspaper), 256

  31

  Trud (newspaper), 61, 139

  Volksstimme (newspaper), 258

  truth-lies, 107, 119–21, 123–25, 130–31

  Volynov, Boris, 103

  truth-telling, 109–10, 120. See also false-

  Vorontsov-Veliaminov, B. A., 176

  hoods and fakes

  Vorposy filosofii (Problems of philosophy)

  Tsander, Fridrikh, 34, 174

  (journal), 169

  Tsiolkovskii, Konstantin, 4, 8, 16–17, 29–31, Voskhod (spacecraft), 5, 64, 102, 225–26, 33–35, 37–39, 42, 48, 136, 173, 266n23,

  226, 233, 237, 310n47, 310n48, 311n77

  282n156; Na lune (On the moon), 31–32

  Vostok (spacecraft), 5, 23, 61, 72, 73, 112,

  TsNIIMash. See Central Scientific-Research

  142, 195, 204, 225, 233, 235–37, 250,

  Institute of Machine Building

  256, 275n43

  Tsygan (dog), 137, 152

  V2 rocket, 19, 20

  Twenty-first Party Congress, 219, 224

  Vyshslavsky, Leonid, “In Memory of Laika,”

  Twenty-second Party Congress, 213

  155

  Uchitel, Alexei, Cosmos as Anticipation, 24

  Weiner, Douglas, 37

  Ugolek (dog), 145

  Wells, H. G., 4

  Ukhodiat v kosmos korabli (They leave for

  Welt am Sonntag (newspaper), 261

  space in a ship) (book), 64

  West, competition with, 241, 246, 249,

  Ulbricht, Walter, 242, 243, 245–47, 249,

  259–60, 315n74. See also United States:

  250, 254–56, 258–60

  competition with

  United States: in Cold War, 20–21; competi- Wilde, Oscar, 159

  tion with, 22–24, 37, 39, 102–3, 205,

  Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 108

  206, 213–14, 249, 256–57, 258 ( see also

  Wolfe, Thomas C., 76

  West, competition with); female astro-

  women. See gender equality; girls; women

  nauts in, 211–12, 306n66; first space

  cosmonauts

  launches of, 307n3; religion in, 165–66

  women cosmonauts, 5, 11, 195–212, 306n66

  Unser Rundfunk (Our broadcasting) (radio

  World Congress of Women, 205

  and television magazine), 255, 256

  World Festivals of Youth and Students, 217,

  Ustinov, Dmitrii, 62, 77

  231

  utopianism: Marxist-Leninist, 191, 193; in

  science fiction, 31, 35; scientific-techno-

  Yazdovsky, Vladimir, 136–37, 151, 152

  logical, 2, 169, 172–73, 297n59; Soviet, Yevtushenko, Yevgeny, 109, 119

  164; space travel and, 5, 18, 35–36, 169

  Zasiadko, Aleksandr D., 29–30, 38

  V masterskoi prirody (In nature’s workshop) Zemliia i vselennaia (journal), 230

  (journal), 33

  Zhuravlev, V., Kosmicheskii reis (Cosmic

  Vanguard TV.3 (spacecraft), 307n3

  race), 38

  Vavilina, Valentina, 203

  znachki (small lapel pins), 217, 219, 227–38

  Vernadskii, Vladimir, 33

  Znanie (Knowledge) All-Union Society, 60

  Verne, Jules, 4, 34

  Znanie-sila (Knowledge is power) (journal),

  Vershinin, Konstantin, 86

  52, 208

  Vestnik vozdushnogo flota (Journal of the air Zvezdochka (dog), 143, 144, 147–48

  fleet), 52

  Document Outline

  Copyright

  Contents

  Acknowledgments

  Introduction: Space Exploration in the Soviet Context // James T. Andrews and Asif A. Siddiqi

  Part 1. The Space Project: Cultural Context and Historical Background 1. The Cultural Spaces of the Soviet Cosmos // Alexei Kojevnikov

  2. Getting Ready for Krushchev’s Sputnik: Russian Popular Culture and National Markers at the Dawn of the Space Age // James T. Andrews

  Part II. Myth and Reality in the Soviet Space Program 3. Cosmic Contradictions: Popular Enthusiasm and Secrecy in the Soviet Space Program // Asif A. Siddiqi

  4. The Human inside a Propaganda Machine: The Public Image and Professional Identity of Soviet Cosmonauts // Slava Gerovitch

  5. The Sincere Deceiver: Yuri Gagarin and the Search for a Higher Truth // Andrew Jenks

  6. Cold War Celebrity and the Courageous Canine Scout: The Life and Times of Soviet Space Dogs // Amy Nelson

  Part III. The Soviet Space Program and the Cultural Front 7. Cosmic Enlightenment: Scientific Atheism and the Soviet Conquest of Space // Victoria Smolkin-Rothrock

  8. She Orbits over the Sex Barrier: Soviet Girls and the Tereshkova Moment // Roshanna P. Sylvester

  9. From the Kitchen into Orbit: The Convergence of Human Spaceflight and Krushchev’s Nascent Consumerism // Cathleen S. Lewis

  10. Cold War Theaters: Cosmonaut Titov at the Berlin Wall // Heater L. Gumbert

  Notes

  Contributors

  Index