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Across the Soviet Bloc, from the 1960s until the collapse of communism, the automobile exemplified the tension between the ideological imperatives of political authorities and the aspirations of ordinary citizens. For the latter, the automobile was the ticket to personal freedom and a piece of the imagined consumer paradise of the West. For the authorities, the personal car was a private, mobile space that challenged the most basic assumptions of the collectivity. The "socialist car"―and the car culture that built up around it―was the result of an always unstable compromise between official ideology, available resources, and the desires of an increasingly restless citizenry. In __The Socialist Car__, eleven scholars from Europe and North America explore in vivid detail the interface between the motorcar and the state socialist countries of Eastern Europe, including the USSR.In addition to the metal, glass, upholstery, and plastic from which the Ladas, Dacias, Trabants, and other still extant but aging models were fabricated, the socialist car embodied East Europeans' longings and compromises, hopes and disappointments. The socialist car represented both aspirations of overcoming th

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Author

Lewis H. Siegelbaum, editor

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801477386

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Business