Cars for Comrades : : The Life of the Soviet Automobile / / Lewis H. Siegelbaum.
The automobile and Soviet communism made an odd couple. The quintessential symbol of American economic might and consumerism never achieved iconic status as an engine of Communist progress, in part because it posed an awkward challenge to some basic assumptions of Soviet ideology and practice. In th...
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Siegelbaum, Lewis H., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Cars for Comrades : The Life of the Soviet Automobile / Lewis H. Siegelbaum. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2011] ©2011 1 online resource (328 p.) : 11 tables, 1 map, 31 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Glossary -- Introduction -- 1. AMO-ZIS-ZIL-AMO-ZIL: Detroit in Moscow -- 2. GAZ, Nizhni Novgorod-Gor'kii- Nizhni Novgorod -- 3. VAZ, Togliatti -- 4. Roads -- 5. One of the Most "Deficit" of Commodities -- 6. Cars, Cars, and More Cars -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The automobile and Soviet communism made an odd couple. The quintessential symbol of American economic might and consumerism never achieved iconic status as an engine of Communist progress, in part because it posed an awkward challenge to some basic assumptions of Soviet ideology and practice. In this rich and often witty book, Lewis H. Siegelbaum recounts the life of the Soviet automobile and in the process gives us a fresh perspective on the history and fate of the USSR itself.Based on sources ranging from official state archives to cartoons, car-enthusiast magazines, and popular films, Cars for Comrades takes us from the construction of the huge "Soviet Detroits," emblems of the utopian phase of Soviet planning, to present-day Togliatti, where the fate of Russia's last auto plant hangs in the balance. The large role played by American businessmen and engineers in the checkered history of Soviet automobile manufacture is one of the book's surprises, and the author points up the ironic parallels between the Soviet story and the decline of the American Detroit. In the interwar years, automobile clubs, car magazines, and the popularity of rally races were signs of a nascent Soviet car culture, its growth slowed by the policies of the Stalinist state and by Russia's intractable "roadlessness." In the postwar years cars appeared with greater frequency in songs, movies, novels, and in propaganda that promised to do better than car-crazy America.Ultimately, Siegelbaum shows, the automobile epitomized and exacerbated the contradictions between what Soviet communism encouraged and what it provided. To need a car was a mark of support for industrial goals; to want a car for its own sake was something else entirely. Because Soviet cars were both hard to get and chronically unreliable, and such items as gasoline and spare parts so scarce, owning and maintaining them enmeshed citizens in networks of private, semi-illegal, and ideologically heterodox practices that the state was helpless to combat. Deeply researched and engagingly told, this masterful and entertaining biography of the Soviet automobile provides a new perspective on one of the twentieth century's most iconic-and important-technologies and a novel approach to understanding the history of the Soviet Union itself. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Automobile industry and trade Soviet Union History. Automobiles Soviet Union History. History Of Science. History. Soviet & East European History. HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 print 9780801446382 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801461002 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801461002 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801461002/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Glossary -- Introduction -- 1. AMO-ZIS-ZIL-AMO-ZIL: Detroit in Moscow -- 2. GAZ, Nizhni Novgorod-Gor'kii- Nizhni Novgorod -- 3. VAZ, Togliatti -- 4. Roads -- 5. One of the Most "Deficit" of Commodities -- 6. Cars, Cars, and More Cars -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index |
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