Russia's Sputnik Generation presents the life stories of eight 1967 graduates of School No. 42 in the Russian city of Saratov. Born in 1949/50, these four men a
Soviet Baby Boomers traces the collapse of the Soviet Union and the transformation of Russia into a modern, highly literate, urban society through the life stor
This book explores Russia's stunning success of ushering in the space age by launching Sputnik and beating the United States into space. It also examines the fo
An assessment of Russia that suggests that we should look beyond traditional means of power to understand its strength and capacity to disrupt international pol
On October 4, 1957, the day Leave It to Beaver premiered on American television, the Soviet Union launched the space age. Sputnik, all of 184 pounds with only a