Socialist Volkswagen. Trabant, Lad, and Dacia in the Cold War

The automobilization of Socialist countries serves as a lesson in the East-West conflict. It reflects the competition for a more efficient social order. It also shows how the Socialist states tried to follow the capitalist model of consumption in order to maintain their legitimacy. Because the mass...

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Published in:Osteuropa (Stuttgart) 2009-10, Vol.59 (10), p.167-183
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