For further study the following resources are recommended.

William E. Burrows, This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age (New York: Random House, 1998)

James Harford, Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997)

James E. Oberg, Uncovering Soviet Disasters: Exploring the Limits of Glasnost (New York: Random House, 1988)

Walter A. McDougall, ...The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age (New York: Basic Books, 1985)

Ronald G. Suny, The Soviet Experiment: Russia, The USSR and The Successor States (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).

Sheila Fitzpatrick, Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).