The socialist car
Subtitle: automobility in the Eastern Bloc
By: Lewis H. Siegelbaum, editor
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780801449918; 9780801477386
Subjects: Automobiles; Socialism and culture; Automobile industry and trade; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The elusive people's car : imagined automobility and productive practices along the "Czechoslovak road to socialism" (1945-1968) / Valentina Fava; title: Cars as favors in people's Poland / Mariusz Jastrząb; title: Alternative modernity? : everyday practices of elite mobility in communist Hungary, 1956-1980 / György Péteri; title: Planning for mobility : designing city centers and new towns in the USSR and the GDR in the 1960s / Elke Beyer; title: Automobility in Yugoslavia between urban planner, market, and motorist : the case of Belgrade, 1945-1972 / Brigitte Le Normand; title: On the streets of a truck-building city : Naberezhnye Chelny in the Brezhnev era / Esther Meier; title: Understanding a car in the context of a system : Trabants, Marzahn, and East German socialism / Eli Rubin; title: The common heritage of the socialist car culture / Luminita Gatejel; title: Autobasteln : modifying, maintaining, and repairing private cars in the GDR, 1970-1990 / Kurt Möser; title: "Little tsars of the road" : Soviet truck drivers and automobility, 1920s-1980s / Lewis H. Siegelbaum; title: Women and cars in Soviet and Russian society / Corinna Kuhr-Korolev.