Cars of the Soviet Union: The Definitive History - Rilegato

Thompson, Andy

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1844254836 ISBN 13: 9781844254835

Casa editrice: Haynes Pubns, 2008

Riassunto

The story of the Soviet Union’s cars has to be seen in the context of a planned society in a vast, relatively undeveloped territory in which everything was planned well in advance, in which consumer items were not a priority until well after the Second World War when the country had developed the necessary heavy industry to be in a position to develop consumer products. This extraordinarily detailed study charts the history of Soviet cars from the birth of the Soviet Union in 1917 until its demise in 1990, with a conclusion about the post-Soviet era. It is the story of an insular, state-run car industry in which the carefully thought-out ideas of ministerial planners, rather than fickle customers in a free market, determined what cars were made in a country where the open road was often a 300-mile track across a windswept steppe. This is a fascinating book, full of rarely seen photographs and illustrations, largely in color, that will interest all car enthusiasts.

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L'autore:

Andy Thompson is a Director of a Housing Association who has been fascinated by this subject since childhood, when he started collecting Lada brochures. Since then he has amassed a huge collection of Russian research material, including catalogs, books and magazines, and become an expert along the way. He lives in Cumbria.

Product Description:

grafici della storia delle automobili sovietiche la nascita dell' Unione sovietica nel 1917 fino alla sua morte nel 1990, con una conclusione sull' era postsovietica.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Haynes Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1844254836
• ISBN 13: 9781844254835
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 376