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Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006
From: Scott W Palmer <sw-palmer@wiu.edu>
Subject: New book: DICTATORSHIP OF THE AIR: AVIATION CULTURE AND THE FATE OF MODERN RUSSIA

Cambridge University Press is pleased to announce the publication of
DICTATORSHIP OF THE AIR: AVIATION CULTURE AND THE FATE OF MODERN RUSSIA
by Scott W. Palmer.

The first book to explain the true story behind twentieth-century Russia’s quest for aviation preeminence, DICTATORSHIP OF THE AIR describes how, behind a façade of daredevil pilots, record setting flights, and gargantuan airplanes, longstanding legacies of industrial backwardness, cultural xenophobia, and state-directed modernization prolonged Russia’s dependence upon Western technology and, ultimately, ensured the USSR’s collapse.

Based upon more than a decade of research, but written with general readers in mind, the book incorporates an extensive array of newly uncovered archival materials and rare visual sources, many of which have never before been published.

For more information, visit: www.dictatorshipoftheair.com