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024 7 _a10.7591/9780801461002
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780801461002
035 _a(DE-B1597)478352
035 _a(OCoLC)732957072
040 _aDE-B1597
_beng
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050 4 _aHD9710.R92
_bS54 2008
072 7 _aHIS032000
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082 0 4 _a338.7/62922209470904
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aSiegelbaum, Lewis H.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aCars for Comrades :
_bThe Life of the Soviet Automobile /
_cLewis H. Siegelbaum.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2011]
264 4 _c©2011
300 _a1 online resource (328 p.) :
_b11 tables, 1 map, 31 halftones
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tList of Tables --
_tPreface --
_tGlossary --
_tIntroduction --
_t1. AMO-ZIS-ZIL-AMO-ZIL: Detroit in Moscow --
_t2. GAZ, Nizhni Novgorod-Gor'kii- Nizhni Novgorod --
_t3. VAZ, Togliatti --
_t4. Roads --
_t5. One of the Most "Deficit" of Commodities --
_t6. Cars, Cars, and More Cars --
_tConclusion --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
_fonline access with authorization
_2star
520 _aThe automobile and Soviet communism made an odd couple. The quintessential symbol of American economic might and consumerism never achieved iconic status as an engine of Communist progress, in part because it posed an awkward challenge to some basic assumptions of Soviet ideology and practice. In this rich and often witty book, Lewis H. Siegelbaum recounts the life of the Soviet automobile and in the process gives us a fresh perspective on the history and fate of the USSR itself.Based on sources ranging from official state archives to cartoons, car-enthusiast magazines, and popular films, Cars for Comrades takes us from the construction of the huge "Soviet Detroits," emblems of the utopian phase of Soviet planning, to present-day Togliatti, where the fate of Russia's last auto plant hangs in the balance. The large role played by American businessmen and engineers in the checkered history of Soviet automobile manufacture is one of the book's surprises, and the author points up the ironic parallels between the Soviet story and the decline of the American Detroit. In the interwar years, automobile clubs, car magazines, and the popularity of rally races were signs of a nascent Soviet car culture, its growth slowed by the policies of the Stalinist state and by Russia's intractable "roadlessness." In the postwar years cars appeared with greater frequency in songs, movies, novels, and in propaganda that promised to do better than car-crazy America.Ultimately, Siegelbaum shows, the automobile epitomized and exacerbated the contradictions between what Soviet communism encouraged and what it provided. To need a car was a mark of support for industrial goals; to want a car for its own sake was something else entirely. Because Soviet cars were both hard to get and chronically unreliable, and such items as gasoline and spare parts so scarce, owning and maintaining them enmeshed citizens in networks of private, semi-illegal, and ideologically heterodox practices that the state was helpless to combat. Deeply researched and engagingly told, this masterful and entertaining biography of the Soviet automobile provides a new perspective on one of the twentieth century's most iconic-and important-technologies and a novel approach to understanding the history of the Soviet Union itself.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
650 0 _aAutomobile industry and trade
_zSoviet Union
_xHistory.
650 0 _aAutomobiles
_zSoviet Union
_xHistory.
650 4 _aHistory Of Science.
650 4 _aHistory.
650 4 _aSoviet & East European History.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9780801461002
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801461002
856 4 2 _3Cover
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999 _c197429
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