Trucks of the Soviet Union: The Definitive History De Andy Thompson

Trucks of the Soviet Union: The Definitive History 

De Andy Thompson 

9780992876951

When the Communists raised the red flag over Russia in October 1917, they inherited a country with virtually no truck industry. Britain, Germany, America and France had factories mass producing trucks; the Russians had a few tiny assembly plants, bolting together imported components.

By the time of the Soviet Union's demise at the end of 1991, its engineers, designers and workers had created one of the world's largest truck industries.

To do that, they had faced and overcome huge challenges.

The Soviet Union's communist system was the world's first attempt to create a new type of society, one that rejected the often chaotic and unstable rules of capitalism.

For more than seventy years, trucks in the Soviet Union were designed and built to be part of a vast planned and ordered transport system, interacting rather than competing with trains and waterways.

Each factory built specific trucks with their own roles to play in the grand design of the planned economy.

Politics and revolutionary expediency were never far from the design studio, or the shop floor, making this a story as much about a nation as it is about an industry.

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Edition Behemoth Limited

400 Pages

En Anglais

Format 21x27cm