Dictatorship of the air : aviation culture and the fate of modern Russia /
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| Author / Creator: | Palmer, Scott W., 1967- |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006. |
| Description: | xx, 307 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge centennial of flight |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6270065 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Usage
- List of Key Terms and Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Russia's Culture of Flight in Historical Perspective
- Part I. Imperial Aviation, 1909-1917
- 1. The Dawn of Russian Aviation
- Tsars of the Air in the Land of the Tsars
- Russia's Passion for Wings
- Public Air-Mindedness and National Identity in Late Imperial Russia
- Compensatory Rhetoric and Aeronautical Transcendence
- 2. "The Air Fleet is the Strength of Russia"
- Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow
- Aviation Between State and Society
- The Russian Warrior
- The Marasmus of Imperial Aviation
- Flights of Fancy
- Part II. The Origins and Institutions of the Soviet Air Fleet, 1917-1929
- 3. Mandating Red Aviation
- Continuity Amid Change in the History of Russia
- "From a Dictatorship of the Earth to a Dictatorship of the Air"
- Friends of the Air Fleet
- "Aviation: Instrument of the Future"
- 4. The Images and Institutions of Soviet Air-Mindedness
- "Sovietizing" the Heavens
- A Soviet Ultimatum
- The Rhetoric and Reality of Compulsory Volunteerism
- Militarization, Centralization, and the Colossalist Impulse
- 5. Aeronautical Iconography and Political Legitimacy
- The "Turn to the Village"
- "Our Religion is the Airplane"
- Aeronautical Icons
- Air-Minded Rituals
- 6. Aviation in Service to the State
- Compensatory Symbolism and the Politics of Legitimation
- The Year of Big Flights
- An Aerial Embassy to Europe
- Land of the Soviets
- Part III. Soviet Aviation in the Age of Stalin, 1929-1945
- 7. Soviet Aviation and Stalinist Culture
- The Great Break
- Technology Transfer, Tempos, and Terror
- The Airplane-Colossus
- Stalin's Route
- 8. "Higher, Faster, Farther!"
- Victory
- Stalin's Proud Falcons
- Stalinist Aviation on the International Stage
- Crises and Catastrophe on the Eve of World War
- 9. Red Phoenix
- Operation Barbarossa
- Russia's War
- Red Phoenix
- A New Locus of Legitimacy
- The Lasting Legacy of Dependence
- Conclusion: Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia
- Bibliography
- Index
