Scott W. Palmer. Dictatorship of the Air: Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. I followed Scott's advice, but as I don't have a car or an office, I ended up with only one copy :) It looks like a worthy companion to Corn and Fritzsche, and indeed, now that it's finally arrived (only 3 months after I ordered it, thanks Amazon.co.uk) I plan to read it alongside those standard works on national airmindedness.
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Scott W. Palmer
Three months?! So much for the conveniences of the "air age."
Anyway, I hope that it proves to have been worth the wait.
Brett Holman
Post authorI think they had to grow the tree for the paper to print the book on AND mine the metal to make the cargo plane out of!