I like your title, it is eye-catching and represents the post well. You said it well, Yuri Gagarin represented the progress and success of the Soviet Union. After all, space flight is an astounding accomplishment, especially for a state that was in a life or death struggle a handful of years earlier. Solid post!
And who ever said competition didn’t drive innovation? I am curious as to how much simpler the Soviets made their satellite in order to get it our quicker. Why is it being first is more important than being best?
I can cite it as a book below the post but I cited it as such to make a hyperlink for it. The book was published in 2003 and while I see now the cite says ebook not published, the ebook should have been published in January this year. I will fix the gr…
I like that you put Khrushchev’s grievances against Stalin into neat bullet points. Like Dr. Nelson said, it could use some extra research to give it a good kick. Besides that, good post!
It is funny to see Marx’s prophecy of communism fall apart. While Marx believed in International Communism doing away with borders, the conflict at Damanskii shows that this is far from the truth. Good research, good post!
The world of dachas is so fascinating! Good work finding the article from the Current Digest that addresses the struggles of ordinary people to find a place they could afford during the summer. Part of the answer to Zane’s question is that lots of people accessed dachas or vacation housing through the workplace (via their trade union). So the more privileged the work(er), the better the dacha.
