Into the Cosmos: Space Exploration and Soviet Culture

Acknowledgments

ix The editors would like to first and foremost thank Peter Kracht, editorial director of the University of Pittsburgh Press. Peter read the entire manuscript and offered insightful organizational and editorial commentary on the work that was invaluable. Dr. Jonathan Harris, professor of Russian politics at the University of Pittsburgh and the series editor of the press’s Series in Russian and East European Studies, also read the manuscript carefully, offering critical advice at the early stages of revision . We thank him for his support of the project and for bringing it to the attention of the editorial board. This project was first conceived as an edited volume at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) convention in Washington, D.C., in 2006, when both editors began a conversation, as a result of several panels, about the possibility of deepening the literature on the cultural history of the space age. We thank the tremendous diligence of our contributors and commend their patience with our several rounds of editorial commentary and revisions. We wish to thank two anonymous reviewers for the press whose lengthy and supportive critical Acknowledgments commentary helped us with the final product. Lastly, we thank our respective families for their patience through the many drafts of this book and accepting the time it took as we moved toward final publication. x  Acknowledgments Into the Cosmos ...