Towards Mobility - Varieties of Automobilism in East and West

List of contents

From the contents:

Introduction
The Impact of Motorization on Soviet Society after 1945
The Wheels of Desire. Automobility Discourses in the Soviet Union
The Introduction of Motor Vehicles on a Mass Scale in the USSR: from Idea to Implementation
Motorization of German Societies in East and West
The Use of German Industrial and Scientific Technical Potential in the Development of the Soviet Motor Industry, 1945 - 1990
Business with the Socialist Automotive Industry. Volkswagen's Economic Relations with the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic
Skill Formation in Skoda's Path to Mass Production: Reworking Imported Technological and Organizational Knowledge

Product details

• Assisted by: Manfred Grieger (Editor), Ulrik Gutzmann (Editor), Ulrike Gutzmann (Editor), Dirk Schlinkert (Editor), Corinna Kuhr-Korolev (Foreword), Dirk Schlinkert (Foreword)
• Publisher: Heel Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.11.2009
• EAN: 9783935112345
• ISBN: 978-3-935112-34-5
• No. of pages: 220
• Weight: 618 g
• Series: FPD, Forschungen, Positionen, Dokumente; Forschungen, Positionen, Dokumente. Schriften zur Unternehmensgeschichte von Volkswagen; FPD, Forschungen, Positionen, Dokumente
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Geschichte, Wirtschaft, Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Auto, Geschichtswissenschaft, Volkswagen, Kraftfahrzeugindustrie, Osteuropa /Geschichte