3. Alternative Modernity? Everyday Practices of Elite Mobility in Communist Hungary, 1956–1980

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One: Socialist Cars and Systems of Production, Distribution, and Consumption
6. 1. The Elusive People’s Car: Imagined Automobility and Productive Practices along the “Czechoslovak Road to Socialism” (1945–1968) 17
7. 2. Cars as Favors in People’s Poland 30
8. 3. Alternative Modernity? Everyday Practices of Elite Mobility in Communist Hungary, 1956–1980 47
9. Part Two: Mobility and Socialist Cities
10. 4. Planning for Mobility: Designing City Centers and New Towns in the USSR and the GDR in the 1960s 71
11. 5. Automobility in Yugoslavia between Urban Planner, Market, and Motorist: The Case of Belgrade, 1945–1972 92
12. 6. On the Streets of a Truck-Building City: Naberezhnye Chelny in the Brezhnev Era 105
13. 7. Understanding a Car in the Context of a System: Trabants, Marzahn, and East German Socialism 124
14. Part Three: Socialist Car Cultures and Automobility
15. 8. The Common Heritage of the Socialist Car Culture 143
16. 9. Autobasteln: Modifying, Maintaining, and Repairing Private Cars in the GDR, 1970–1990 157
17. 10. “Little Tsars of the Road”: Soviet Truck Drivers and Automobility, 1920s–1980s 170
18. 11. Women and Cars in Soviet and Russian Society 186
19. Notes 205
20. Notes on Contributors 237
21. Index 239