Red Stars and Cosmic Dreams: Early Soviet Propaganda and the Space Imaginary

Sunday, April 7, 2024 • 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Walker Recital Hall

Lecture by Dr. Katie Duda, Russian Studies

Space combined two major components for early Soviet mythology: the new Soviet man and the conquest of nature. Consequently, space imagination "took off" in the first quarter of the 20th century with books, images, amateur societies, and movies, which, in no small part, would shape the Soviet space program.

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