Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile John C. Wyngaard ISBN10: 082542996X

ISBN10: 082542996X

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He and his friend Henry take cheap lodgings in a Paddington boarding-house whose denizens include the spirited

ISBN13: 9780785223115

Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile John C. Wyngaard ISBN10: 082542996XThe 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