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Unveiling the Construction of Truth: Archives and the Soviet Space Program

Slava Gerovitch MIT 11 May 2013. Unveiling the Construction of Truth: Archives and the Soviet Space Program. Grigory Neliubov (second row, second from left), May 1961. No Neliubov. Neliubov on/off. From left: Yuri Gagarin, Marshal Moskalenko, and Sergei Korolev. Marshal Moskalenko on/off.

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Unveiling the Construction of Truth: Archives and the Soviet Space Program

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  1. Slava Gerovitch MIT 11 May 2013 Unveiling the Construction of Truth: Archives and the Soviet Space Program

  2. Grigory Neliubov (second row, second from left), May 1961

  3. No Neliubov

  4. Neliubov on/off

  5. From left: Yuri Gagarin, Marshal Moskalenko, and Sergei Korolev

  6. Marshal Moskalenko on/off

  7. Yuri Gagarin at Vnukovo airport, 14 April 1961

  8. Siddiqi book

  9. Sergei Korolev and Valentin Glushko in prison

  10. Korolev and his associates in Germany, 1940s, photos from RGANTD

  11. Popular Soviet magazines promoting space travel in the 1950s, before Sputnik

  12. Published collections of archival documents from the Presidential Archive and from RGANTD

  13. Korolev and other space engineers, 1950s, photo from RGANTD

  14. The Council of Chief Designers, photo from RGANTD

  15. Andrew Jenks’s biography of Gagarin

  16. Victoria Smolkin-Rothrock on atheist propaganda

  17. Monica Rüthers on rocket contest for school children in Cheliabinsk, 1960s

  18. Detskii mir, children’s store at Lubianka Sq., Moscow, 1959

  19. Gagarin giving a talk to workers at the Leningrad Steel Plant, 9 June 1962

  20. Asif Siddiqi on secrecy vs. publicity • elimination of contingency • “limited visibility” • master narrative

  21. Cathleen Lewis on biographies, ceremonies, and memorabilia • utopian dreams • self-sacrifice • nostalgia/irony

  22. Remembering

  23. Korolev’s fake photo

  24. Lewis Siegelbaum on Sputnik at Expo 58 World Fair in Brussels

  25. RGANTD • 1974: Center for State Preservation of Space Documentation (TsKD/RNITsKD) • 1995: Russian State Archive of Scientific-Technical Documentation (TsKD+Samara) • 580,000 documents from 500 institutions of the space, defense, and scientific-technological sector and private individuals

  26. Korolev supporters around his monument, 2007 Glushko supporters around his monument, 2001

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