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Extraordinarily detailed and fully illustrated, this is the story of Soviet cars from the birth of the Soviet Union in 1917 until its demise in 1991, including a chapter dedicated to the post-Soviet era. It is the story of an insular, state-run car industry in which the carefully thought-out ideas of ministerial planners, rather than the fickle nature of customers in a free market, determined what cars were made. The cars of the Soviet Union therefore have a unique heritage: designed for a social purpose, influenced by politicians, built with military needs in mind and sold in a country where the open road could be a 300-mile track across a windswept steppe. This is a fascinating book, full of rarely seen photographs and illustrations, largely in colour, that will interest classic car enthusiasts everywhere.

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For as long as he can remember, Andy Thompson has been fascinated by trucks, cars and vans, always being particularly interested in the often-overlooked brands and industries. He has owned more than seventy different vehicles in a lifetime of motoring from Cumbria to Bulgaria, from Shropshire to the Sahara. His previous books, Cars of the Soviet Union and Cars of Eastern Europe, have been highly praised and translated into several languages. Previously, Andy has been a disc jockey for Radio Caroline, a housing director for local authorities and housing associations and a housing markets advisor at the Audit Commission.

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