Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile

by Lewis H. Siegelbaum

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801477212
• ISBN13: 9780801477218
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher