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.

The Socialist Car -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Socialist Cars and Systems of Production, Distribution, and Consumption -- 1. The Elusive People's Car: Imagined Automobility and Productive Practives along the "Czechoslovak Road to Socialism" (1945-1968) -- 2. Cars...