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Dictatorship of the air: aviation culture and the fate of modern Russia

Scott W. Palmer

Year: 2007, c2006.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press.

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table of contents

Title Page

[Dedication]

[Epigraph]

List of Illustrations

List of Film Clips

Notes on Usage

List of Key Terms and Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Russia’s Culture of Flight in Historical Perspective

Part I: Imperial Aviation, 1909–1917

1: The Dawn of Russian Aviation

Tsars of the air in the land of the Tsars

Russia's passion for wings

Public air-mindedness and national identity in Late Imperial Russia

Compensatory rhetoric and aeronautical transcendence

2: "The Air Fleet is the Strength of Russia"

Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow

Aviation between state and society

The Russian warrior

The marasmus of Imperial aviation

Flights of fancy

Part II: The Origins and Institutions of the Soviet Air Fleet, 1917–1929

3: Mandating Red Aviation

Continuity amid change in the history of Russia

"From a dictatorship of the earth to a dictatorship of the air"

Friends of the air fleet

"Aviation: instrument of the future"

4: The Images and Institutions of Soviet Air-Mindedness

"Sovietizing" the Heavens

A Soviet ultimatum

The rhetoric and reality of compulsory volunteerism

Militarization, centralization, and the colossalist impulse

5: Aeronautical Iconography and Political Legitimacy

The "turn to the village"

"Our religion is the airplane"

Aeronautical icons

Air-minded rituals

6: Aviation in Service to the State

Compensatory symbolism and the politics of legitimation

The year of big flights

An aerial embassy to Europe

Land of the Soviets

Part III: Soviet Aviation in the Age of Stalin, 1929–1945

7: Soviet Aviation and Stalinist Culture

The great break

Technology transfer, tempos, and terror

The airplane-colossus

Stalin's route

8: "Higher, Faster, Farther!"

Victory

Stalin's proud falcons

Stalinist aviation on the international stage

Crises and catastrophe on the eve of World War

9: Red Phoenix

Operation Barbarossa

Russia's war

Red Phoenix

A new locus of legitimacy

The lasting legacy of dependence

10: Red Wings on the Silver Screen: Aviation and Cinema in Soviet Russia, 1923–1939

[Intro]

Aeronautical agitki of the 1920s

Feature Films of the 1930s, Part I: Collectivist Visions and Civilian Aviation

Feature Films of the 1930s, Part II: The Fascist Threat and Military Aviation

Conclusion: Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia

Appendix 1: Aviation Literature of the 1920s

Aviation: Instrument of the Future

Авиация – орудие будущего

The Airplane Adventures of Egor Poddevkin

Приключения Егора Поддевкина на самолете

Concerning Priestly Angst and Pains, of Locusts and of Aeroplanes

О поповской заботе о саранче и о самолете

Appendix 2: Aviation Poetry of the 1930s

"To Stalin"

"Сталину"

"The Three"

"Трое"

"The Three"

"Трое"

"The Friends Report to the Motherland"

"Друзья рапортуют родине"

"Warriors"

"Богатыри"

Appendix 3: Aviation Film Dialogue Lists

City Under Siege

Город под ударом

Gogi: The Courageous Flier

Гоги: отважный летчик

The Pilot and the Girl

Пилот и девушка

Fliers: Scanned Script Pages

The Motherland Calls (AKA: Call to Arms)

[Notes]

Introduction

1: The Dawn of Russian Aviation

2: "The Air Fleet is the Strength of Russia"

3: Mandating Red Aviation

4: The Images and Institutions of Soviet Air-Mindedness

5: Aeronautical Iconography and Political Legitimacy

6: Aviation in Service to the State

7: Soviet Aviation and Stalinist Culture

8: "Higher, Faster, Farther!"

9: Red Phoenix

10: Red Wings on the Silver Screen: Aviation and Cinema in Soviet Russia, 1923–1939

Aviation: Instrument of the Future

The Airplane Adventures of Egor Poddevkin

"The Friends Report to the Motherland"

"Warriors"

Bibliography

Archival Sources

Periodicals

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Filmography

Index

[A-G]

[H-O]

[P-Z]

About the Author

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Dictatorship of the air : aviation culture and the fate of modern Russia Scott W. Palmer.

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Palmer, Scott W., 1967-

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Dictatorship of the air : aviation culture and the fate of modern Russia Scott W. Palmer.
Palmer, Scott W., 1967-
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, c2006.

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Subject Headings:

• Aeronautics -- Soviet Union -- History
• Technology transfer -- Soviet Union
• Technology and state -- Russia (Federation)
• Aeronautics -- Russia (Federation) -- History
• Soviet Union -- Politics and government

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