Mobilities in Socialist and Post-Socialist States

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: Understanding Mobility in Soviet and East European Socialist and Post-Socialist States

   • Kathy Burrell, Kathrin Hörschelmann

   Pages 1-22

3. Communication, Mobility and Control in the Soviet Union after World War II

   • Larissa Zakharova

   Pages 23-44

4. Power and Mobilities in Socialist Romania 1964–89

   • Ciprian Cirniala

   Pages 45-61

5. Leisure and Politics: Soviet Central Asian Tourists across the Iron Curtain

   • Botakoz Kassymbekova

   Pages 62-86

6. Between Limits, Lures and Excitement: Socialist Romanian Holidays Abroad during the 1960s–80s

   • Adelina Oana Stefan

   Pages 87-104

7. Mooring in Socialist Automobility: Garage Areas

   • Tauri Tuvikene

   Pages 105-121

8. ‘Women Here Are Like at the Time of Enver [Hoxha]…’: Socialist and Post-Socialist Gendered Mobilities in Albanian Society

   • Julie Vullnetari, Russell King

   Pages 122-147

9. The View from the Back of the Warrior: Mobility, Privilege and Power during the International Intervention in Bosnia-Herzegovina

   • Catherine Baker

   Pages 148-172

10. Travel and the State after the ‘Fall’: Everyday Modes of Transport in Post-Socialist Serbia

    • Marina Simić

    Pages 173-193

11. Urban Public Transport and the State in Post-Soviet Central Asia

    • Wladimir Sgibnev

    Pages 194-216

12. Geography of Daily Mobilities in Post-Socialist European Countries: Evidence from Slovenia

    • David Bole, Matej Gabrovec

    Pages 217-239

13. Life-Worlds of Deceleration: Reflections on the ‘New Mobilities Paradigm’ through Ethnographic Research in Post-Socialist Germany

    • Ina Dietzsch

    Pages 240-259

14. Back Matter

    Pages 261-263

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This interdisciplinary collection explores what mobility meant, and still means, in the specific contexts of Soviet and East European socialist and post-socialist societies. Together the chapters consider diverse practices of mobility and their different contexts of power, resistance and inequality.

• Albania
• communication
• equality
• Europe
• Germany
• mobility
• Nation
• Slovenia
• socialism
• society
• Soviet Union
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)

“The scope of the book is broad, discussing both physical mobilities and their representations – cultural meanings attached to moving in space or inability to do so. … The volume is worth reading as an important addition to the scholarship on mobilities as well as to the studies of socialist and post-socialist societies. It deals with under-researched issues like gender and  ethnicity.” (Mariusz Jastrząb, The Journal of Transport History, Vol. 38 (2), 2018)

• University of Liverpool, UK

  Kathy Burrell

• University of Durham, UK

  Kathrin Hörschelmann

• Leibniz Institut for Regional Geography Leipzig, Germany

  Kathrin Hörschelmann

Catherine Baker, University of Hull, UK David Bole, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana, Slovenia Ciprian Cirniala, University of Potsdam, Germany Ina Dietzsch, Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology Matej Gabrovec, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana, Slovenia Botakoz Kassymbekova, Technical University Berlin, Germany Russell King, University of Sussex, UK Adelina Oana Stefan, University of Pittsburgh, USA Wladimir Sgibnev, Regional Geography in Leipzig, Germany Marina Simi?, University of Manchester, UK Tauri Tuvikene, Tallinn University, Estonia Julie Vullnetari, University of Sussex, UK Larissa Zakharova, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France