| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 242 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The elusive people's car : imagined automobility and productive practices along the "Czechoslovak road to socialism" (1945-1968) / Valentina Fava -- Cars as favors in people's Poland / Mariusz Jastrząb -- Alternative modernity? : everyday practices of elite mobility in communist Hungary, 1956-1980 / György Péteri -- Planning for mobility : designing city centers and new towns in the USSR and the GDR in the 1960s / Elke Beyer -- Automobility in Yugoslavia between urban planner, market, and motorist : the case of Belgrade, 1945-1972 / Brigitte Le Normand -- On the streets of a truck-building city : Naberezhnye Chelny in the Brezhnev era / Esther Meier -- Understanding a car in the context of a system : Trabants, Marzahn, and East German socialism / Eli Rubin -- The common heritage of the socialist car culture / Luminita Gatejel -- Autobasteln : modifying, maintaining, and repairing private cars in the GDR, 1970-1990 / Kurt Möser -- "Little tsars of the road" : Soviet truck drivers and automobility, 1920s-1980s / Lewis H. Siegelbaum -- Women and cars in Soviet and Russian society / Corinna Kuhr-Korolev |
| Summary |
In 'The Socialist Car' eleven scholars from Europe and North America explore the interface between the motorcar and the state in the socialist countries of Eastern Europe |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Automobiles -- Social aspects -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century
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Automobiles -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union -- History
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Automobile industry and trade -- Social aspects -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century
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Automobile industry and trade -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union -- History
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Socialism and culture -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century
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Socialism and culture -- Soviet Union -- History
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Transportation.
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TRANSPORTATION -- Public Transportation.
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Automobile industry and trade -- Social aspects
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Automobiles -- Social aspects
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Socialism and culture
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Personenkraftwagen
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Kraftfahrzeugindustrie
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Kraftwagen.
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Wirtschaftssoziologie.
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Kraftfahrzeugindustrie.
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Eastern Europe
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Soviet Union
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Ostblock
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Osteuropa
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Osteuropa.
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Sowjetunion.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Siegelbaum, Lewis H., editor.
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| ISBN |
0801463211 |
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9780801463211 |
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