Sur les routes de l'Est

Sur les routes de l'Est

Author: Klaus Schameitat

Publisher:

Published: 2018-01-05

Total Pages: 820

ISBN-13: 9782911870385

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L'ancien bloc de l'Est s'étendait de l'Allemagne de l'Est jusqu'à la Russie, des pays baltes jusqu'au Caucase, de la Pologne jusqu'à la Yougoslavie. La production automobile, spécialement adaptée au mauvais état du réseau routier, a engendrée des millions de véhicules très robustes : des voitures, des 4x4, des camions, des bus. On se souvient des marques telles que Dacia, Trabant, Wartburg, Lada, Skoda, Moskvitch, GAZ, ZIL, TAM, Volga, Fiat-Polski, Ikarus, Zastava. Après la fin de l'Union soviétique et jusque dans les années 2010, ces voitures sont restées des témoins d'une période révolue, visibles sur toutes les routes des pays de l'Est. Ces voitures multicolores tendent aujourd'hui à disparaître du décor, à l'exception des rares modèles de collection. Le mérite de l'auteur Klaus Schameitat, dont les premiers voyages en Europe de l'Est remontent aux années 1970, réside dans le fait qu'il a documenté par la photo – d'abord argentique puis numérique – toute la diversité de la mobilité motorisée des pays qu'il a visités. Diplômé de géographie, Schameitat a également documenté les scènes de la vie quotidienne. Les légendes de ses photos reflètent la précision du travail réalisé par l'identification des modèles et la description des lieux. D'une oeuvre initiale de 2000 photos, l'éditeur a retenu 820 clichés qui illustrent de façon unique ce qui autrement serait tombé dans l'oubli. Les photos de véhicules, regroupées par pays et réparties sur 20 chapitres, sont aérées par des images pittoresques de paysages urbains et ruraux. Le lecteur part ainsi à la découverte de l'histoire de la mobilité d'un demi-continent avec ses aspects variés et souvent surprenant. Les brefs textes introductifs et les légendes compactes donnent de façon précise toutes les informations nécessaires. En annexe on trouvera une liste d'explications relatives aux abréviations ainsi qu'aux noms des marques et des modèles. Les pays suivants sont représentés dans ce livre : Russie (y compris Kaliningrad), Ukraine (y compris la Crimée), Moldavie (y compris la Transnistrie), Géorgie, Estonie, Lettonie, Lituanie, Allemagne de l'Est (ex-RDA), Pologne, République tchèque et Slovaquie (ex-Tchécoslovaquie), Hongrie, Roumanie, Bulgarie, Albanie, ex-Yougoslavie (Macédoine, Monténégro, Serbie, Croatie, Slovénie). Au début de chaque chapitre se trouve une carte qui permet de localiser le pays abordé.


Cars of Eastern Europe

Cars of Eastern Europe

Author: Andy Thompson

Publisher: Haynes Publishing UK

Published: 2011-03-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781844259915

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Cars of Eastern Europe tells the story of the cars and vans made in Latvia, Poland, the former Yugoslavia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and East Germany. In a region that stretches from the Black Sea to the Baltic, the vehicles were as varied as the nations themselves. Now that eastern Europe has come in from the cold, this book offers a unique and timely survey of the motor industry in this often overlooked part of the continent.


East European Cars

East European Cars

Author: Julian Nowill

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9780750923699

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East European cars are generally derided in the West as cheap, low-quality rustbuckets. This title aims to dig deeper, covering almost all the vehicles produced from the end of the Second World War to the end of the 20th century from the most basic three-wheeler from Czechosolovakia to the big V8 limousines of Russian and China. Many Soviet bloc cars were never exported to the West so there are many unfamiliar marques such as the Zil, Chaika, Syrena and Tatra. These are covered along with the better known Skoda, Lada and Trabant, including Soviet land-speed records and prototypes.


The Socialist Car

The Socialist Car

Author: Lewis H. Siegelbaum

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2013-04-18

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0801463211

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Across the Soviet Bloc, from the 1960s until the collapse of communism, the automobile exemplified the tension between the ideological imperatives of political authorities and the aspirations of ordinary citizens. For the latter, the automobile was the ticket to personal freedom and a piece of the imagined consumer paradise of the West. For the authorities, the personal car was a private, mobile space that challenged the most basic assumptions of the collectivity. The "socialist car"-and the car culture that built up around it-was the result of an always unstable compromise between official ideology, available resources, and the desires of an increasingly restless citizenry. In The Socialist Car, eleven scholars from Europe and North America explore in vivid detail the interface between the motorcar and the state socialist countries of Eastern Europe, including the USSR. In addition to the metal, glass, upholstery, and plastic from which the Ladas, Dacias, Trabants, and other still extant but aging models were fabricated, the socialist car embodied East Europeans' longings and compromises, hopes and disappointments. The socialist car represented both aspirations of overcoming the technological gap between the capitalist first and socialist second worlds and dreams of enhancing personal mobility and status. Certain features of automobility-shortages and privileges, waiting lists and lack of readily available credit, the inadequacy of streets and highways-prevailed across the Soviet Bloc. In this collective history, the authors put aside both ridicule and nostalgia in the interest of trying to understand the socialist car in its own context.


The People's Republics of Eastern Europe

The People's Republics of Eastern Europe

Author: Jürgen Tampke

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-02-06

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1000535363

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This book, first published in 1983, goes beyond the ‘black and white’ literature of many East–West observers to offer a more nuanced assessment of the achievements of the Eastern bloc countries of the early 1980s. It covers the emergence of ‘Eastern Europe’ from revolution and war, the politics and economics of the new countries and their relationships with the West.


The Globalization of Industry and Innovation in Eastern Europe

The Globalization of Industry and Innovation in Eastern Europe

Author: Christian von Hirschhausen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9781782542308

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'The topic is important and neglected and has major implications for the types of industrial policy that make any sense in transition countries. The clear message of this book is that protective science and technology policies would, for the most part, be a total waste of money. What is needed now is internationalization and a demand-driven approach, exactly the opposite of the former nationally based and supply-led systems existing under socialism.' - Paul Hare, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, UK 'Here is a book that goes beyond the abstractions and platitudes of conventional "transition economics" to look at what is really happening on the ground in the post-socialist countries of Eastern Europe . . . The Globalization of Industry and Innovation in Eastern Europe presents a provocative but richly documented assessment of the central dynamic issues facing the East European economies today.' - David Dyker, SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, UK In this important book, industrial and enterprise reform over the last decade in Eastern Europe is critically reviewed in light of increasing Eastern integration into the global economy. The authors argue for the further globalization of Eastern European enterprise networks as a condition for recovery and growth in the region. Empirical evidence is provided from five industrial sectors (car industry, telecommunication, shipbuilding, computers, software), including case studies and international comparisons.