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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherAcademic Studies Press
ISBN-101644697718
ISBN-139781644697719
eBay Product ID (ePID)15063193441
Product Key Features
Book TitleClub Red Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream
Number of Pages458 Pages
LanguageRussian
TopicSociology / General, Former Soviet Republics
Publication Year2022
GenreTravel, Social Science
AuthorDiane Koenker
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight0 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
SynopsisClub Red is a sweeping and insightful history of Soviet vacationing and tourism from the Revolution through perestroika, part of the regime's effort to transform the poor and often illiterate citizenry into new Soviet men and women. Koenker emphasizes the development over time of a distinctive blend of purpose and pleasure in Soviet vacation policy and practice, and she explores a fundamental paradox: a state committed to the idea of the collective found itself promoting a vacation policy that increasingly encouraged individual autonomy. While Koenker focuses primarily on Soviet domestic vacation travel, she also notes the decisive impact of travel abroad (mostly to other socialist countries), which shaped new worldviews, created new consumer desires, and transformed Soviet vacation practices.