Aviation and Russian Culture [New Book]

[Peter Scotto]

This is a great topic, and a book that long needed to be written!

We have similar studies for America and Germany, but the Soviet Union was a
missing piece in our picture of 20th-century "air mindedness."

Who wrote it? 

Peter Scotto
Mount Holyoke College 


Quoting "Scott W. Palmer" <sw-palmer at WIU.EDU>:

> Just a quick note to alert SEELANGS subscribers to the publication of 
> _Dictatorship of the Air: Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia_ 
> released this month by Cambridge University Press. 
> 
> The first book to explain the real story behind twentieth-century
> Russia’s
> quest for aviation preeminence, _Dictatorship of the Air_ describes how,
> behind a façade of daredevil pilots, record setting flights, and
> gargantuan
> airplanes, longstanding legacies of industrial backwardness, cultural
> xenophobia, and state-directed modernization prolonged Russia’s
> dependence
> upon Western technology and, ultimately, ensured the USSR’s collapse. 
> 
> Based upon more than a decade of research, but written with general readers
> in mind, the book incorporates an extensive array of newly uncovered
> archival materials and rare visual sources, many of which have never before
> been published.
> 
> For more information, please visit: www.dictatorshipoftheair.com
> 
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