The socialist car automobility in the Eastern Bloc / Lewis H. Siegelbaum, editor. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2011. - 1 online resource (vii, 242 pages) illustrations.

Includes bibliographies and index.

The elusive people's car : imagined automobility and productive practices along the "Czechoslovak road to socialism" (1945-1968) / Cars as favors in people's Poland / Alternative modernity? : everyday practices of elite mobility in communist Hungary, 1956-1980 / Planning for mobility : designing city centers and new towns in the USSR and the GDR in the 1960s / Automobility in Yugoslavia between urban planner, market, and motorist : the case of Belgrade, 1945-1972 / On the streets of a truck-building city : Naberezhnye Chelny in the Brezhnev era / Understanding a car in the context of a system : Trabants, Marzahn, and East German socialism / The common heritage of the socialist car culture / Autobasteln : modifying, maintaining, and repairing private cars in the GDR, 1970-1990 / "Little tsars of the road" : Soviet truck drivers and automobility, 1920s-1980s / Women and cars in Soviet and Russian society / Valentina Fava -- Mariusz Jastrząb -- György Péteri -- Elke Beyer -- Brigitte Le Normand -- Esther Meier -- Eli Rubin -- Luminita Gatejel -- Kurt Möser -- Lewis H. Siegelbaum -- Corinna Kuhr-Korolev.



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Automobiles--Social aspects--History--Europe, Eastern--20th century.
Automobiles--Social aspects--History.--Soviet Union
Automobile industry and trade--Social aspects--History--Europe, Eastern--20th century.
Automobile industry and trade--Social aspects--History.--Soviet Union
Socialism and culture--History--Europe, Eastern--20th century.
Socialism and culture--History.--Soviet Union


Electronic Books.

HE5662 / .S635 2011