Club Red : vacation travel and the Soviet dream /

Club Red : vacation travel and the Soviet dream / Diane P. Koenker.

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The Bolsheviks took power in Russia 1917 armed with an ideology centered on the power of the worker. From the beginning, however, Soviet leaders also realized the need for rest and leisure within the new proletarian society and over subsequent decades struggled to reconcile the concept of leisure wi...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Koenker, Diane, 1947- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Tourism > Social aspects > Soviet Union > History.
Vacations > Social aspects > Soviet Union > History.
Socialism and culture > Soviet Union > History.
Culture and tourism > Soviet Union > History.
Culture and tourism.
Manners and customs.
Socialism and culture.
Tourism > Social aspects.
Soviet Union > Social life and customs.
Soviet Union.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : vacations, tourism, and the paradoxes of Soviet culture
  • Mending the human motor
  • Proletarian tourism : the best form of rest
  • The proletarian tourist in the 1930s : seeking the good life on the road
  • Restoring vacations after the war
  • From treatment to vacation : the post-Stalin consumer regime
  • Post-proletarian tourism : the new Soviet person takes to the road
  • The modernization of Soviet tourism
  • Conclusion : Soviet vacations and the modern world.

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