On the Side: Car Culture in the USSR, 1960s-1980s

摘要

Siegelbaum explores Soviet car culture in terms of its spatial dimensions and the kinds of relationships that occurred within them. Also, he tells that the shortage of spare parts, fuel, repair services, legally sanctioned garage space, and other accoutrements of an automobile-based society--plus the resort to the second, gray space, shadow economy-- has defined the specificity of Soviet car culture. To this end, he concludes with observations about the culture's internal contradictions and dynamics.