{"title":"Soviets in Space: Russia’s Cosmonauts and the Space Frontier","authors":"Ian Varga","doi":"10.1080/03612759.2023.2221544","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"themselves played determinative roles merely by being themselves. When they faced off for the first and final time, it was not by ‘chance’ or ‘fate’—rather, they were both exactly where they were supposed to be” (74). Despite our agency and free will as humans, perhaps no amount of planning, manipulation, and conspiring can stop historical events from eventually taking on a life of their own. Now wouldn’t that be the ultimate irony.","PeriodicalId":220055,"journal":{"name":"History: Reviews of New Books","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"History: Reviews of New Books","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03612759.2023.2221544","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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themselves played determinative roles merely by being themselves. When they faced off for the first and final time, it was not by ‘chance’ or ‘fate’—rather, they were both exactly where they were supposed to be” (74). Despite our agency and free will as humans, perhaps no amount of planning, manipulation, and conspiring can stop historical events from eventually taking on a life of their own. Now wouldn’t that be the ultimate irony.