Club Red Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream

Name: Club Red Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream
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ISBN: 9780801451539

ISBN-10: 0801451531

ISBN-13: 9780801451539

Edition: 2017

Authors: 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 with the doctrine of communism, addressing such fundamental concerns as what the purpose of leisure should be in a workers' state and how socialist vacations should differ from those enjoyed by the capitalist bourgeoisie.In Club Red, Diane P. Koenker offers a sweeping and insightful history of Soviet vacationing and tourism from the Revolution through perestroika. She shows that from the outset,…

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List price: $87.00
Copyright year: 2017
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 6/1/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 328
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.002
Language: English



Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


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


Bibliography


Index