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Dictatorship of the Air: Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia (Cambridge Centennial of Flight)
Scott W. Palmer
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| #2909285 in Books | Cambridge University Press | 2009-04-13 | 2009-06-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.98 x.67 x5.98l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 328 pages | ||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Let's Have Motors !|By Michael L. Shakespeare|Imperial Russia was visited by early aviators and was instantly fascinated by airplanes. Because Russia was the most backward of the great nations, its leaders, beginning with Peter the Great, sought to modernize the country to compete with other Western European nations. Could aviation give Russian leaders the right tool to spark||"Scott Palmer has given us a remarkably original survey of Russia's aeronautical development between 1909 and 1989 that artfully combines political, technological, military, and above all cultural history into a rich mosaic that yields surprising insights into
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 ...
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