The Socialist Car : Automobility in the Eastern Bloc.

The Socialist Car -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Socialist Cars and Systems of Production, Distribution, and Consumption -- 1. The Elusive People's Car: Imagined Automobility and Productive Practives along the "Czechoslovak Road to Socialism" (1945-1968) -- 2. Cars as Favors in People's Poland -- 3. Alternative Modernity? Everyday Practices of Elite Mobility in Communist Hungary, 1956-1980 -- 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 -- 5. Automobility in Yugoslavia between Urban Planner, Market, and Motorist: The Case of Belgrade, 1945-1972 -- 6. On the Streets of a Truck-Building City: Naberezhnye Chelny in the Brezhnev Era -- 7. Understanding a Car in the Context of a System: Trabants, Marzahn, and East German Socialism -- Part Three: Socialist Car Cultures and Automobility -- 8. The Common Heritage of the Socialist Car Culture -- 9. Autobasteln: Modifying, Maintaining, and Repairing Private Cars in the GDR, 1970-1990 -- 10. "Little Tsars of the Road": Soviet Truck Drivers and Automobility, 1920s-1980s -- 11. Women and Cars in Soviet and Russian Society -- Notes -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

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