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Author:   Lewis H. Siegelbaum ,  Lewis H Siegelbaum
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
Imprint:   Cornell University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780801477386

ISBN 10:   0801477387
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   15 October 2011
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction by Lewis H. Siegelbaum Part One: Socialist Cars and Systems of Production, Distribution, and Consumption 1. The Elusive People's Car: Imagined Automobility and Productive Practices along the ""Czechoslovak Road to Socialism"" (1945-1968) by Valentina Fava 2. Cars as Favors in People's Poland by Mariusz Jastrzab 3. Alternative Modernity? Everyday Practices of Elite Mobility in Communist Hungary, 1956-1980 by Gyorgy Peteri Part Two: Mobility and Socialist Cities 4. Planning for Mobility: Designing City Centers and New Towns in the USSR and the GDR in the 1960s by Elke Beyer 5. Automobility in Yugoslavia between Urban Planner, Market, and Motorist: The Case of Belgrade, 1945-1972 by Brigitte Le Normand 6. On the Streets of a Truck-Building City: Naberezhnye Chelny in the Brezhnev Era by Esther Meier 7. Understanding a Car in the Context of a System: Trabants, Marzahn, and East German Socialism by Eli Rubin Part Three: Socialist Car Cultures and Automobility 8. The Common Heritage of the Socialist Car Culture by Luminita Gatejel 9. Autobasteln: Modifying, Maintaining, and Repairing Private Cars in the GDR, 1970-1990 by Kurt Moser 10. ""Little Tsars of the Road"": Soviet Truck Drivers and Automobility, 1920s-1980s by Lewis H. Siegelbaum 11. Women and Cars in Soviet and Russian Society by Corinna Kuhr-Korolev Notes Notes on Contributors Index

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<p> In this exemplary volume, the seemingly narrow topic of automobility in the Eastern Bloc becomes a window into aspects of history as varied as factory production, Communist Party politics, urban planning, and the domestic lives of women. . . . The everyday experiences of European socialism really come alive in these pages as the singular attention to the car allows the era's larger social, economic, and political issues to be highlighted and interrogated in multiple, convincing ways. -Kimberly Elman Zarecor, Technology and Culture (January 2013)

<p> These fine essays show that a clash of civilizations can play out in the everyday commodities such as cars. Automobility as it manifested under Socialism proves to be an incredibly rich subject, reaching from the design of vast metropolitan areas down to ways the average car owner cared for their vehicle. Luminita Gatejel's essay on Socialist car culture describes the 'ambiguous amalgam of Socialist superiority and the painful awareness of backwardness' that the car caused the Eastern Bloc and USSR to feel. -Mike Pursley, PopMatters (3 October 2011)

<p> Cars offer a fascinating prism through which to explore the socialist society that materialized in the Eastern Bloc after 1917. . . . The sociological and cultural approaches one might take in regard to the automobile are numerous and diverse and The Socialist Car does not disappoint. Tim Harte, Slavic and East European Journal (Spring 2013)

Author Information

Lewis H. Siegelbaum is Professor of History at Michigan State University. He is the author of several books, including Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile and the editor of The Socialist Car: Automobility in the Eastern Bloc, both from Cornell.

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