The Socialist Car : : Automobility in the Eastern Bloc /

The Socialist Car : : Automobility in the Eastern Bloc / / ed. by Lewis H. Siegelbaum.

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Across the Soviet Bloc, from the 1960s until the collapse of communism, the automobile exemplified the tension between the ideological imperatives of political authorities and the aspirations of ordinary citizens. For the latter, the automobile was the ticket to personal freedom and a piece of the i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Beyer, Elke,
Fava, Valentina,
Gatejel, Luminita,
Jastrząb, Mariusz,
Kuhr-Korolev, Corinna,
Le Normand, Brigitte,
Meier, Esther,
Möser, Kurt,
Péteri, György,
Rubin, Eli,
Siegelbaum, Lewis H.,
HerausgeberIn:
Siegelbaum, Lewis H.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 23 halftones, 7 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One: Socialist Cars and Systems of Production, Distribution, and Consumption
  • 1. The Elusive People's Car: Imagined Automobility and Productive Practices along the "Czechoslovak Road to Socialism" (1945-1968)
  • 2. Cars as Favors in People's Poland
  • 3. Alternative Modernity? Everyday Practices of Elite Mobility in Communist Hungary, 1956-1980
  • Part Two: Mobility and Socialist Cities
  • 4. Planning for Mobility: Designing City Centers and New Towns in the USSR and the GDR in the 1960s
  • 5. Automobility in Yugoslavia between Urban Planner, Market, and Motorist: The Case of Belgrade, 1945-1972
  • 6. On the Streets of a Truck-Building City: Naberezhnye Chelny in the Brezhnev Era
  • 7. Understanding a Car in the Context of a System: Trabants, Marzahn, and East German Socialism
  • Part Three: Socialist Car Cultures and Automobility
  • 8. The Common Heritage of the Socialist Car Culture
  • 9. Autobasteln: Modifying, Maintaining, and Repairing Private Cars in the GDR, 1970-1990
  • 10. "Little Tsars of the Road": Soviet Truck Drivers and Automobility, 1920s-1980s
  • 11. Women and Cars in Soviet and Russian Society
  • Notes
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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