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Title The socialist car : automobility in the Eastern Bloc / Lewis H. Siegelbaum, editor.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 242 pages) : illustrations
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Automobiles -- Social aspects -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.
Automobiles -- Social aspects.
Eastern Europe.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Automobiles -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union -- History.
Soviet Union.
Automobile industry and trade -- Social aspects -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.
Automobile industry and trade -- Social aspects.
Automobile industry and trade.
Automobile industry and trade -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union -- History.
Socialism and culture -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.
Socialism and culture.
Socialism and culture -- Soviet Union -- History.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Siegelbaum, Lewis H.
Other Form: Print version: 9780801449918 080144991X (DLC) 2011018880
ISBN 0801463211 (electronic book)
9780801463211 (electronic book)
9780801449918 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
080144991X (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780801477386 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0801477387 (paperback ; alkaline paper)