Never mind the right stuff, here’s the red stuff: how Yuri Gagarin and the cosmonauts shaped Soviet space culture
Margaret Harris reviews Cosmonaut: a Cultural History by Cathleen S Lewis
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Margaret Harris reviews Cosmonaut: a Cultural History by Cathleen S Lewis
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