The Socialist Car

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801477387
• ISBN13: 9780801477386
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher