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Dictatorship of the Air - Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia (Hardcover)
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Dictatorship of the Air - Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Centennial of Flight
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Focusing on one of the last untold chapters in the history of human
flight, Dictatorship of the Air is the first book to explain the
true story behind twentieth-century Russia's quest for aviation
prominence. Based on nearly a decade of scholarly research, but
written with general readers in mind, this is the only account to
answer the question 'What is 'Russian' about Russian aviation?'
From the 1909 arrival of machine-powered flight in the 'land of the
tsars' to the USSR's victory over Hitler in 1945, Dictatorship of
the Air describes why the airplane became the preeminent symbol of
industrial progress and international power for generations of
Russian statesmen and citizens, The book reveals how, behind a
facade of daredevil pilots, record-setting flights, and gargantuan
airplanes, Russia's long-standing legacies of industrial
backwardness, cultural xenophobia, and state-directed modernization
prolonged the nation's dependence on western technology and
ultimately ensured the USSR's demise.
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