| Description |
vii, 242 p. : ill. |
| 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 Jastrzab -- Alternative modernity? : everyday practices of elite mobility in communist Hungary, 1956-1980 / Gyorgy Peteri -- 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 Moser -- "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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Automobiles -- Social aspects -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.
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Automobiles -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union -- History.
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Automobile industry and trade -- Social aspects -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.
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Automobile industry and trade -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union -- History.
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Socialism and culture -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.
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Socialism and culture -- Soviet Union -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Siegelbaum, Lewis H.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780801449918 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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080144991X (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780801477386 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0801477387 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780801463211 (electronic bk.) |
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