Cars for Comrades - The Life of the Soviet Automobile

Informationen zum Autor Lewis H. Siegelbaum is Professor of History at Michigan State University. He is the author of several books, including Soviet State and Society between Revolutions, 1918-1929 , and the editor most recently of Borders of Socialism: Private Spheres of Soviet Russia . Klappentext Deeply researched and engagingly told, this masterful and entertaining biography of the Soviet automobile provides a new perspective on one of the twentieth century's most iconic-and important-technologies and a novel approach to understanding the USSR. Zusammenfassung Deeply researched and engagingly told, this masterful and entertaining biography of the Soviet automobile provides a new perspective on one of the twentieth century's most iconic—and important—technologies and a novel approach to understanding the USSR. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ConclusionNotes Index

Product details

• Authors: Lewis H Siegelbaum, Lewis H. Siegelbaum
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2008
• EAN: 9780801446382
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-4638-2
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 242 mm x 24 mm
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics