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Motorcycles & Motorcycling in the USSR from 1939
- – a Social and Technical History
Engelsk Hardback
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Motorcycles & Motorcycling in the USSR from 1939
- – a Social and Technical History
Engelsk Hardback

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Motorcycles and Motorcycling in the USSR from 1939 provides the first accessible English language account of motorcycles in the Soviet Union. Concentrating on the wartime and postwar period until 1990, prior to the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, it covers the motorcycles produced, and looks at the way in which they were used at home and exported abroad. Chapters cover wartime, models produced, the social character of Soviet era motorcycling, and wide-ranging sport. With planned rather than market-led production based around copies of pre-war German BMW and DKW models, the industry churned out hundreds of thousands of utilitarian and rugged machines that were very different from the more fashion-orientated machines produced in the West. These motorcycles went under the place names of the producing factories: Ishevsk, Kovrov, Moskva, Minsk and, of course, the large flat twins produced in Irbit and Kiev under the Ural and Dnepr names. With a strong emphasis on Soviet era illustrations, the book provides an insight into a life, based on idealism and ideology that has now passed. Photographs and images, many of them from private family collections, show Soviet bikes as well as popular imports Jawa from Czechoslovakia, and Pannonia from Hungary.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
128
ISBN-13:
9781787113145
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1787113140
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Udg. Dato:
15 feb 2019
Længde:
10mm
Bredde:
256mm
Højde:
213mm
Forlag:
David & Charles
Oplagsdato:
15 feb 2019
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