title: Anti-service: Personal Automobile and its Maintenance in the USSR (1960s — 1980s)
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metadata.value: Tverdyukova, E. D.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-10-23T15:56:19Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-10-23T15:56:19Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-09
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Tverdyukova E. D. ‘Anti-service: Personal Automobile and its Maintenance in the USSR (1960s — 1980s)’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 8, no. 3, 2018, pp. 659–678.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu24.2018.308
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/14986
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Article is devoted to questions of repair and maintenance of privately owned vehicles in the USSR in
  1960th — 1980th. The author used legislative documents, office work, and statistical materials, sources of personal
  origin, periodicals. A part of documents (for example, from funds of the State Archive of Russian Federation)
  is for the first time introduced for scientific use. Three stages of formation of a system of domestic car service
  are allocated, measures of the state for the creation of the network of car repair shops (the general profile and
  specialized) and problems at stages of their construction and input in a system are investigated. Also, difficulties
  which motorists had to face on service stations (low-quality repair, red tape, and fraud of workers) are analyzed.
  It is shown that car owners were forced involuntarily “to raise own commercial crop”, because conditions of car
  service in the USSR were bad. Data on the cost of maintenance and service of the car are provided. Long time the
  system service stations allowed to satisfy requirements on repair and maintenance of cars of individual owners
  only for 30–40 %, only by the end of the 1980th have approached 80 %. The branch, new to the USSR, — auto
  servicing — stepped from semi-handicraft repair shops to the equipped specialized car-centers only in two decades
  (since the end of the 1960th until the end of the 1980th). The author draws a conclusion that the lack of the
  high-quality market of services in car service in the USSR was explained by the specific character of the planned
  economy and by “growth disease”: a creation of the network of service stations was not in time behind rates of
  increase in the personal vehicle fleet.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 8; Issue 3
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: USSR
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: personal automobile
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: car service
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: service station
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: repair
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Anti-service: Personal Automobile and its Maintenance in the USSR (1960s — 1980s)
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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