A Visual History of Early Soviet Space Endeavor
by
Iina Kohonen
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Picturing the Cosmos elucidates the complex relationship between visual propaganda and censorship in the Soviet Union in the Cold War period, focusing on the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing from a comprehensive corpus of rarely seen photographs and other visual phenomena narrating the Soviet Union’s 1957...