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The socialist car automobility in the Eastern Bloc

Title
The socialist car [electronic resource] : automobility in the Eastern Bloc / Lewis H. Siegelbaum, editor.
Publication
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011.

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Siegelbaum, Lewis H.
Description
1 online resource (vii, 242 p.) : ill.
Uniform Title
Socialist car (Online)
Subject
  • 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 > Europe, Eastern > History > 20th century
  • Socialism and culture > Soviet Union > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
LCCN
2011018880
OCLC
ssj0000872227
Title
The socialist car [electronic resource] : automobility in the Eastern Bloc / Lewis H. Siegelbaum, editor.
Imprint
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Siegelbaum, Lewis H.
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