The socialist car
automobility in the Eastern Bloc
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 i…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8014-6322-8
- EAN: 9780801463228
- Produktnummer: 23653401
- Verlag: Cornell University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'697 KB
- Abbildungen: 23 halftones, 7 tables
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
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