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Autor:
James T. Andrews, Asif A. Siddiqi
The launch of the Sputnik satellite in October 1957 changed the course of human history. In the span of a few years, Soviets sent the first animal into space, the first man, and the first woman. These events were a direct challenge to the United Stat
Publikováno v:
Continuity and Change. 38:1-8
In his now-classic mediation on the sociology of secrecy, Georg Simmel cautioned that while ‘human interaction is conditioned by the capacity to speak, it is [also] shaped by the capacity to be silent’.1 As historians, we are trained to see what
Autor:
Asif A. Siddiqi
Publikováno v:
Continuity and Change. 38:75-97
The intensive culture of secrecy and censorship in postwar Soviet society was enabled by bureaucracies such as Glavlit, the principal agency for censorship, but also by a secondary level of ‘parasitic bureaucracy’ involving institutions and paper
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. 41:2-10
This special themed section examines the multilayered engagements between Africa and the Soviet Union as a central, if overlooked, global encounter of the mid-twentieth century. We call this worldview and the entanglements it generated the “African
Autor:
Asif A. Siddiqi
Publikováno v:
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. 41:41-55
This article explores the biography of a network of Soviet telescopic cameras stationed across the African Sahel during the Cold War. Through joint Soviet-African cooperative programs, scientists used these advanced cameras in Egypt, Somalia, Mali, t
Autor:
Asif A. Siddiqi
Publikováno v:
History and Technology. 36:452-474
This essay explores the origins of the Satellite Instructional Technology Experiment (SITE), a project that used a NASA satellite to beam educational programs to over two thousand villages in India...
Autor:
Asif A. Siddiqi
Publikováno v:
Slavic Review. 80:965-967
Autor:
Asif A. Siddiqi
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The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review. 47:219-222
Autor:
Asif A. Siddiqi
Publikováno v:
Britannica Online
Externí odkaz:
http://academic.eb.com/levels/collegiate/article/125500
Autor:
Asif A. Siddiqi
Publikováno v:
Britannica Online
Externí odkaz:
http://academic.eb.com/levels/collegiate/article/437756