Gorsuch / Koenker Turizm

The Russian and East European Tourist under Capitalism and Socialism
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5017-2723-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 0 - No protection

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

In the Soviet Union and the eastern bloc, the idea of "vacation" was never as uncomplicated as throwing some suitcases in the car and heading for the beach. The emphasis was on individual self-improvement within the framework of the collective, an approach manifest in everything from the scheduling of physical exercise to the group tours organized for factory workers, Party cadres, and other segments of society. Like other Soviet-style utopian projects, socialist tourism, which was often heavily laden with rules and prescriptions, was a consciousness-raising project, part of the vast effort to forge new socialist men and women.Turizm is the first book to examine the history of tourism in Russia and eastern Europe from the tsarist period to the age of Soviet and east European mass tourism in the 1960s and 1970s. The contributors to this volume address topics including the roots of socialist tourism, the role of tourism in the making of nations and maintenance of empire, and ways in which the men and women of the "margins of Europe" understood themselves in relation to "Europe." Especially interesting are chapters that show how individuals pursued their own consumerist goals within the framework of collective tourism, obliging the regimes to adapt. Illustrated with period photographs and promotional materials, Turizm will appeal not only to historians of the region but also to anyone with an interest in consumer culture, travel, leisure, and nation-building.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gorsuch, Anne E.

Koenker, Diane P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Expeditions- & Reiseliteratur

Über Autor(innen)

GorsuchAnne E.:
Anne E. Gorsuch is Associate Professor of History at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Youth in Revolutionary Russia: Enthusiasts, Bohemians, Delinquents and coeditor with Diane P. Koenker of Turizm: The Russian and East European Tourist under Capitalism and Socialism, from Cornell.KoenkerDiane P.:
Diane P. Koenker is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Editor of Slavic Review. She is the author of several books including Moscow Workers and the 1917 Revolution, coauthor of Strikes in Revolution, Russia 1917, and coeditor and translator of Notes of a Red Guard. From Cornell, she authored Republic of Labor: Russian Printers and Soviet Socialism, 1918-1930, and coedited Turizm: The Russian and East European Tourist under Capitalism and Socialism with Anne E. Gorsuch.