The Socialist Car: Automobility in the Eastern Bloc

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v CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Lewis H. Siegelbaum Part One: Socialist Cars and Systems of Production, Distribution, and Consumption 1. The Elusive People’s Car: Imagined Automobility and Productive Practices along the “Czechoslovak Road to Socialism” (1945–1968) 17 Valentina Fava 2. Cars as Favors in People’s Poland 30 Mariusz Jastrząb 3. Alternative Modernity? Everyday Practices of Elite Mobility in Communist Hungary, 1956–1980 47 György Péteri Part Two: Mobility and Socialist Cities 4. Planning for Mobility: Designing City Centers and New Towns in the USSR and the GDR in the 1960s 71 Elke Beyer 5. Automobility in Yugoslavia between Urban Planner, Market, and Motorist: The Case of Belgrade, 1945–1972 92 Brigitte Le Normand CONTENTS vi 6. On the Streets of a Truck-Building City: Naberezhnye Chelny in the Brezhnev Era 105 Esther Meier 7. Understanding a Car in the Context of a System: Trabants, Marzahn, and East German Socialism 124 Eli Rubin Part Three: Socialist Car Cultures and Automobility 8. The Common Heritage of the Socialist Car Culture 143 Luminita Gatejel 9. Autobasteln: Modifying, Maintaining, and Repairing Private Cars in the GDR, 1970–1990 157 Kurt Möser 10. “Little Tsars of the Road”: Soviet Truck Drivers and Automobility, 1920s–1980s 170 Lewis H. Siegelbaum 11. Women and Cars in Soviet and Russian Society 186 Corinna Kuhr-Korolev Notes 205 Notes on Contributors 237 Index 239 ...