Cars for comrades : the life of the Soviet automobile /
The 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 th...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2008.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Glossary
- Introduction
- 1. AMO-ZIS-ZIL-AMO-ZIL: Detroit in Moscow
- 2. GAZ, Nizhni Novgorod-Gor'kii- Nizhni Novgorod
- 3. VAZ, Togliatti
- 4. Roads
- 5. One of the Most "Deficit" of Commodities
- 6. Cars, Cars, and More Cars
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index.