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Trucks of the Soviet Union: The Definitive History [Audiobook] download free by Andy Thompson

Trucks of the Soviet Union: The Definitive History Audiobook download free by Andy Thompson
  • Listen audiobook: Trucks of the Soviet Union: The Definitive History
  • Author: Andy Thompson
  • Release date: 2017/7/21
  • Publisher: BEHEMOTH PUBLISHING LIMITED
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Transportation
  • ISBN: 9780992876951
  • Rating: 9.42 of 10
  • Votes: 348
  • Review by: Makenzie Benefield
  • Review rating: 9.97 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/10/26
  • Duration: 5H2M39S in 256 kbps (80 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-24
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: OPUS, WAV, WMA, MPEG-4 DST, MP3, FLAC, AIFF, MPEG4 (compression RAR, TBZ, ZIP, CBR)
  • Total pages original book: 400
  • Includes a PDF summary of 46 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 35M27S (9.2 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: 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. The vast natural environment also played its part. Soviet truckers were faced with driving huge distances across a landscape that included some of the coldest and hottest places on earth, a country that spanned Europe and Asia, the Artic Circle and the Caucasus region. Service stations and motorways were few and far between in such a huge country, making reliability and serviceability far more important than driver comfort.Trucks of the Soviet Union recounts how the truck industry helped build Soviet industrial might, shares the chaos and pain those proud truck makers suffered after the hammer and sickle was hauled down from the Kremlin flag poles and reveals the newly confident and buoyant truck industry that has risen from its post-Communist ashes to become a part of a newly resurgent Russia.
  • Other categories, genre or collection: Motor Cars, Buses, Trams & Commercial
  • Download servers: Firedrop, 4Shared, Mediafire, Google Drive, Dropbox, Copiapop, Microsoft OneDrive, Uptobox, BitShare. Compressed in RAR, TBZ, ZIP, CBR
  • Format: Hardback
  • Approximate value: 83.80 USD
  • Dimensions: 210x270x22.86mm
  • Weight: 1,451.5g
  • Printed by: Not Available
  • Published in: United Kingdom

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