Andrew Jenks
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785205 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Jenks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Jenks |
| SIGNATURE | JENKS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Long Beach |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Collaboration in Space and the Search for Peace on Earth
There has been quite a bit of scholarship on the history of the space race, but collaboration in space has received little attention and has usually been dismissed as a propaganda side show. This book thus fills a critical gap by showing the importance of collaboration in space as an antidote to Cold War hostilities and as an important yet underappreciated episode in the development of science and technology in the twentieth century
Androgynous Coupling and the Engineering of Peace: A Cold-War Romance in Space
This article delves into the technopolitics of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, a groundbreaking collaboration between American and Soviet space engineers in 1975. The mission's objective was to design a docking system that would integrate the two superpower space systems, Apollo and Soyuz, thereby reducing tensions and promoting peace during the Cold War era. The engineers' task went beyond mere technical innovation, as they sought to create a tec…
U.S.-Soviet Handshakes in Space and the Cold War Imaginary
This article examines the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975 as an instrument of diplomacy and as a catalyst for East-West détente. The topic has received little attention in either the general literature on the Cold War—which has only recently begun to address the political significance of science and technology more generally—or in the literature on space history, which has focused mostly on the earlier race to land on the moon and has devoted l…
Collaboration in Space and the Search for Peace on Earth
Crossing Borders: Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Russia and the Soviet Union, written by Michael David-Fox
Polly Jones, Myth, Memory, Trauma: Rethinking the Stalinist Past in the Soviet Union, 1953–70
The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter by Deborah R. Coen (review)
Reviewed by: The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter by Deborah R. Coen Andrew Jenks (bio) The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter. By Deborah R. Coen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. 360. $35. Earthquakes are physical and seismic events, but also mental and metaphorical phenomena. This fascinating study examines the boundaries between science and society through the history of m…
Conquering space: The cult of Yuri Gagarin
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Soviet and Post-Soviet Identities
Since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, questions of identity have dominated the culture not only of Russia, but of all the countries of the former Soviet bloc. This timely collection examines the ways in which cultural activities such as fiction, TV, cinema, architecture and exhibitions have addressed these questions and also describes other cultural flashpoints, from attitudes to language to the use of passports. It discusses definitions of p…
Would Trotsky Wear a Blue Tooth? Technological Utopianism under Socialism, 1917–1989 (review)
Reviewed by: Would Trotsky Wear a Blue Tooth? Technological Utopianism under Socialism, 1917–1989 Andrew Jenks (bio) Would Trotsky Wear a Blue Tooth? Technological Utopianism under Socialism, 1917–1989. By Paul R. Josephson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Pp. 342. $65. Paul Josephson’s latest book argues that practitioners of socialist construction were technological utopians. Lenin, Trotsky, et al. had supreme confidence in the…
Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars (review)
Reviewed by: Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars Andrew Jenks (bio) Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars. By Ethan Pollock. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. viii+269. $35. Joseph Stalin is known by many titles: "Uncle Joe," "the Generalisimus," "General Secretary," "the Man of Steel." Less well known is Joseph Stalin, "the coryphaeus of science." Ethan Pollock has written an important book that reveals Stalin's paramount role i…
Model City USA: The Environmental Cost of Victory in World War II and the Cold War
Long shrouded in a cocoon of national-security secrecy, the history of the Lake Ontario Ordnance Works site in western New York sheds light on the enduring environmental, political, and social costs of victory in World War II and the Cold War. A micro-study of a nuclear waste site, this article analyzes connections among U.S. nuclear weapons waste management and the environment, local politics, grassroots activism, and international diplomacy. Ul…
Dictatorship of the Air: Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia , by Scott W. Palmer
Russia in a Box: Art and Identity in an Age of Revolution
Flesh to Metal: Soviet Literature and the Alchemy of Revolution (review)
Reviewed by: Flesh to Metal: Soviet Literature and the Alchemy of Revolution Andrew Jenks (bio) Flesh to Metal: Soviet Literature and the Alchemy of Revolution. By Rolf Hellebust. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003. Pp. x+221. $42.50/18.95. Rolf Hellebust's fine book explores the multifaceted meanings of metal in Soviet culture. Examining a wide array of literary sources, he argues that the creation of steel from iron represented two re…
Palekh and the forging of a Russian nation in the Brezhnev Era
Paleh et la formation d’une nation russe pendant la période brejnévienneL’article étudie la culture russe de la période brejnévienne à travers le village de Paleh, qui se situe à environ 300km au nord-est de Moscou. Les artistes de Paleh s’étaient fait connaître pour leur production d’art russe dit « traditionnel » à la fin de l’époque tsariste et pendant la période soviétique. Forts du succès qu’ils avaient remporté pendant les premières années …
Red Atom: Russia's Nuclear Power Program from Stalin to Today (review)
Paul Josephson's detailed history of the Soviet nuclear program provides a cautionary tale in "big technology run amok" (p. 4). Driven relentlessly forward by the party quest for legitimacy, with nuclear power "at the center of visions of a radiant communist future," the Soviet nuclear program acquired a deadly momentum whose "legacy of failure and radioactive waste suggests radiance of a different and dangerous sort" (p. 3). Influential engineer…
A Metro on the Mount: The Underground as a Church of Soviet Civilization
In 1938 the chief artist for Moscow's Mayakovski metro station urged Muscovites, "Raise your head, citizens, and you will see the sky." Forty meters below the surface, Soviets would find images "preparing them for labor and defense." Nearly three dozen cupolas crowned the top of a 155-meter-long platform dressed in stainless steel, Stalin's favorite material. Each tile mosaic (fig. 1) showed idealized scenes from a day in Soviet life: blast furna…
Model City USA: The Environmental Cost of Victory in World War II and the Cold War
Long shrouded in a cocoon of national-security secrecy, the history of the Lake Ontario Ordnance Works site in western New York sheds light on the enduring environmental, political, and social costs of victory in World War II and the Cold War. A micro-study of a nuclear waste site, this article analyzes connections among U.S. nuclear weapons waste management and the environment, local politics, grassroots activism, and international diplomacy. Ul…
A Metro on the Mount: The Underground as a Church of Soviet Civilization
In 1938 the chief artist for Moscow's Mayakovski metro station urged Muscovites, "Raise your head, citizens, and you will see the sky." Forty meters below the surface, Soviets would find images "preparing them for labor and defense." Nearly three dozen cupolas crowned the top of a 155-meter-long platform dressed in stainless steel, Stalin's favorite material. Each tile mosaic (fig. 1) showed idealized scenes from a day in Soviet life: blast furna…
U.S.-Soviet Handshakes in Space and the Cold War Imaginary
This article examines the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975 as an instrument of diplomacy and as a catalyst for East-West détente. The topic has received little attention in either the general literature on the Cold War—which has only recently begun to address the political significance of science and technology more generally—or in the literature on space history, which has focused mostly on the earlier race to land on the moon and has devoted l…
A Metro on the Mount: The Underground as a Church of Soviet Civilization
In 1938 the chief artist for Moscow's Mayakovski metro station urged Muscovites, "Raise your head, citizens, and you will see the sky." Forty meters below the surface, Soviets would find images "preparing them for labor and defense." Nearly three dozen cupolas crowned the top of a 155-meter-long platform dressed in stainless steel, Stalin's favorite material. Each tile mosaic (fig. 1) showed idealized scenes from a day in Soviet life: blast furna…
Red Atom: Russia's Nuclear Power Program from Stalin to Today (review)
Paul Josephson's detailed history of the Soviet nuclear program provides a cautionary tale in "big technology run amok" (p. 4). Driven relentlessly forward by the party quest for legitimacy, with nuclear power "at the center of visions of a radiant communist future," the Soviet nuclear program acquired a deadly momentum whose "legacy of failure and radioactive waste suggests radiance of a different and dangerous sort" (p. 3). Influential engineer…
Palekh and the forging of a Russian nation in the Brezhnev Era
Paleh et la formation d’une nation russe pendant la période brejnévienneL’article étudie la culture russe de la période brejnévienne à travers le village de Paleh, qui se situe à environ 300km au nord-est de Moscou. Les artistes de Paleh s’étaient fait connaître pour leur production d’art russe dit « traditionnel » à la fin de l’époque tsariste et pendant la période soviétique. Forts du succès qu’ils avaient remporté pendant les premières années …
Flesh to Metal: Soviet Literature and the Alchemy of Revolution (review)
Reviewed by: Flesh to Metal: Soviet Literature and the Alchemy of Revolution Andrew Jenks (bio) Flesh to Metal: Soviet Literature and the Alchemy of Revolution. By Rolf Hellebust. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003. Pp. x+221. $42.50/18.95. Rolf Hellebust's fine book explores the multifaceted meanings of metal in Soviet culture. Examining a wide array of literary sources, he argues that the creation of steel from iron represented two re…
Russia in a Box: Art and Identity in an Age of Revolution
Model City USA: The Environmental Cost of Victory in World War II and the Cold War
Long shrouded in a cocoon of national-security secrecy, the history of the Lake Ontario Ordnance Works site in western New York sheds light on the enduring environmental, political, and social costs of victory in World War II and the Cold War. A micro-study of a nuclear waste site, this article analyzes connections among U.S. nuclear weapons waste management and the environment, local politics, grassroots activism, and international diplomacy. Ul…
Dictatorship of the Air: Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia , by Scott W. Palmer
Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars (review)
Reviewed by: Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars Andrew Jenks (bio) Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars. By Ethan Pollock. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. viii+269. $35. Joseph Stalin is known by many titles: "Uncle Joe," "the Generalisimus," "General Secretary," "the Man of Steel." Less well known is Joseph Stalin, "the coryphaeus of science." Ethan Pollock has written an important book that reveals Stalin's paramount role i…
Would Trotsky Wear a Blue Tooth? Technological Utopianism under Socialism, 1917–1989 (review)
Reviewed by: Would Trotsky Wear a Blue Tooth? Technological Utopianism under Socialism, 1917–1989 Andrew Jenks (bio) Would Trotsky Wear a Blue Tooth? Technological Utopianism under Socialism, 1917–1989. By Paul R. Josephson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Pp. 342. $65. Paul Josephson’s latest book argues that practitioners of socialist construction were technological utopians. Lenin, Trotsky, et al. had supreme confidence in the…
Conquering space: The cult of Yuri Gagarin
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Soviet and Post-Soviet Identities
Since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, questions of identity have dominated the culture not only of Russia, but of all the countries of the former Soviet bloc. This timely collection examines the ways in which cultural activities such as fiction, TV, cinema, architecture and exhibitions have addressed these questions and also describes other cultural flashpoints, from attitudes to language to the use of passports. It discusses definitions of p…
The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter by Deborah R. Coen (review)
Reviewed by: The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter by Deborah R. Coen Andrew Jenks (bio) The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter. By Deborah R. Coen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. 360. $35. Earthquakes are physical and seismic events, but also mental and metaphorical phenomena. This fascinating study examines the boundaries between science and society through the history of m…
Crossing Borders: Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Russia and the Soviet Union, written by Michael David-Fox
Polly Jones, Myth, Memory, Trauma: Rethinking the Stalinist Past in the Soviet Union, 1953–70
Collaboration in Space and the Search for Peace on Earth
There has been quite a bit of scholarship on the history of the space race, but collaboration in space has received little attention and has usually been dismissed as a propaganda side show. This book thus fills a critical gap by showing the importance of collaboration in space as an antidote to Cold War hostilities and as an important yet underappreciated episode in the development of science and technology in the twentieth century
Androgynous Coupling and the Engineering of Peace: A Cold-War Romance in Space
This article delves into the technopolitics of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, a groundbreaking collaboration between American and Soviet space engineers in 1975. The mission's objective was to design a docking system that would integrate the two superpower space systems, Apollo and Soyuz, thereby reducing tensions and promoting peace during the Cold War era. The engineers' task went beyond mere technical innovation, as they sought to create a tec…
U.S.-Soviet Handshakes in Space and the Cold War Imaginary
This article examines the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975 as an instrument of diplomacy and as a catalyst for East-West détente. The topic has received little attention in either the general literature on the Cold War—which has only recently begun to address the political significance of science and technology more generally—or in the literature on space history, which has focused mostly on the earlier race to land on the moon and has devoted l…
Collaboration in Space and the Search for Peace on Earth
Political science (13 works) · History (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Art history (6 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (6 works) · Economic history (6 works) · Soviet and Russian History (5 works)