Mobilities in Socialist and Post-Socialist States: Societies on the Move

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: Understanding Mobility in Soviet and East European Socialist and Post-Socialist States....Pages 1-22
Communication, Mobility and Control in the Soviet Union after World War II....Pages 23-44
Power and Mobilities in Socialist Romania 1964–89....Pages 45-61
Leisure and Politics: Soviet Central Asian Tourists across the Iron Curtain....Pages 62-86
Between Limits, Lures and Excitement: Socialist Romanian Holidays Abroad during the 1960s–80s....Pages 87-104
Mooring in Socialist Automobility: Garage Areas....Pages 105-121
‘Women Here Are Like at the Time of Enver [Hoxha]…’: Socialist and Post-Socialist Gendered Mobilities in Albanian Society....Pages 122-147
The View from the Back of the Warrior: Mobility, Privilege and Power during the International Intervention in Bosnia-Herzegovina....Pages 148-172
Travel and the State after the ‘Fall’: Everyday Modes of Transport in Post-Socialist Serbia....Pages 173-193
Urban Public Transport and the State in Post-Soviet Central Asia....Pages 194-216
Geography of Daily Mobilities in Post-Socialist European Countries: Evidence from Slovenia....Pages 217-239
Life-Worlds of Deceleration: Reflections on the ‘New Mobilities Paradigm’ through Ethnographic Research in Post-Socialist Germany....Pages 240-259
Back Matter....Pages 261-263