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News reports
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The First Man in Space. Soviet Radio and News
paper Reports on the Flight of the Spaceship Vostok, compiled and translated by Joseph L. Ziegelbaum, Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Astronautics Information Translation 22, 1 May 1961 (JPL, Calfornia Institute of Techology) – Gagarin’s first flight
Life Magazine vol. 47 no. 6 (10 August 1959), pp. 28–35 – pictures of the American exhibition
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Time Magazine, 12 February 1965, ‘Borrowing from the Capitalists’ – Liberman and economic reform
Websites
Banknotes
http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category: Banknotes_of_the_Soviet_ Union,_1961
Russian cars
www.autosoviet.com
Alexander [Aleksandr] Galich
www.galichclub.narod. ru/biog. htm
The Jewish Women’s Archive
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/berg-raissa-lvovna
Soviet literature
www.sovlit.com
Michael Swanwick’s blog
http://floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2008/02/khrushchev-isnt-he-russian-novelist. html [sic]
Unrealised Moscow
http://www.muar.ru/ve/2003/moscow/index_e. htm
Film and television
Adam Curtis, dir., ‘The Engineers’ Plot’ (TV documentary), programme 1 of Pandora’s Box, BBC TV 1992
Georgii Daniela, dir., Ya shagayu po Moskve (‘I Walk around Moscow’), 1964
Marlen Khutsiev, dir., Zastava Ilicha/Mne Dvadtsat’ Let (‘Ilich’s Gate’/‘I Am Twenty’), 1961 released 1965
Marlen Khutsiev, dir., Iyulskii Dozhd’ (‘July Rain’), 1967
Mikhail Romm, dir., Devyat’ dnei odnogo goda (‘Nine Days in One Year’), 1962
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Francis Spufford, a former Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year (1997), has edited two acclaimed literary anthologies and a collection of essays about the history of technology. His first book, I May Be Some Time, won the Writers’ Guild Award for Best Non-Fiction Book of 1996, the Banff Mountain Book Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award. His second, The Child That Books Built, gave Neil Gaiman ’the peculiar feeling that there was now a book I didn’t need to write’. His third, Backroom Boys, was called ’as nearly perfect as makes no difference’ by the Daily Telegraph and was shortlisted for the Aventis Prize. In 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He teaches writing at Goldsmiths College and lives near Cambridge.
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