Author: United States. Central Intelligence AgencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
USSR: about to Enter the Automotive Age?
Author: United States. Central Intelligence AgencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
USSR: about to Enter the Automotive Age?
Author: United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Directorate of IntelligencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Fiat-Soviet Auto Plant, and Communist Economic Reforms
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
List of Publications Issued
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and CurrencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Banking law
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Cars for Comrades
Author: Lewis H. SiegelbaumPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801461484
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The automobile and Soviet communism made an odd couple. The quintessential symbol of American economic might and consumerism never achieved iconic status as an engine of Communist progress, in part because it posed an awkward challenge to some basic assumptions of Soviet ideology and practice. In this rich and often witty book, Lewis H. Siegelbaum recounts the life of the Soviet automobile and in the process gives us a fresh perspective on the history and fate of the USSR itself. Based on sources ranging from official state archives to cartoons, car-enthusiast magazines, and popular films, Cars for Comrades takes us from the construction of the huge "Soviet Detroits," emblems of the utopian phase of Soviet planning, to present-day Togliatti, where the fate of Russia's last auto plant hangs in the balance. The large role played by American businessmen and engineers in the checkered history of Soviet automobile manufacture is one of the book's surprises, and the author points up the ironic parallels between the Soviet story and the decline of the American Detroit. In the interwar years, automobile clubs, car magazines, and the popularity of rally races were signs of a nascent Soviet car culture, its growth slowed by the policies of the Stalinist state and by Russia's intractable "roadlessness." In the postwar years cars appeared with greater frequency in songs, movies, novels, and in propaganda that promised to do better than car-crazy America. Ultimately, Siegelbaum shows, the automobile epitomized and exacerbated the contradictions between what Soviet communism encouraged and what it provided. To need a car was a mark of support for industrial goals; to want a car for its own sake was something else entirely. Because Soviet cars were both hard to get and chronically unreliable, and such items as gasoline and spare parts so scarce, owning and maintaining them enmeshed citizens in networks of private, semi-illegal, and ideologically heterodox practices that the state was helpless to combat. 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 history of the Soviet Union itself.
Borders of Socialism
Author: L. SiegelbaumPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403984549
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This fascinating book argues that in Russia the relations between culture and nation, art and life, commodity and trash, often diverged from familiar Western European or American versions of modernity. The essays show how public and private overlapped and shaped each other, creating new perspectives on individuals and society in the Soviet Union.
USSR
Author: National Foreign Assessment Center (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
East-West Trade: Includes testimony of government and other witnesses
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on International FinancePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : East-West trade
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Considers S.J. Res. 169, to request a review of restrictions contained in Export Control Act and practiced by Export-Import Bank, with a view to modifying them so that trade in peaceful goods with Communist countries may be increased.
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and CurrencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Banking law
Languages : en
Pages : 1458
Book Description
East-West Trade
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on International FinancePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : East-West trade
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description