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Club Red Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream by Diane Koenker (2022, Hardcover)

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Club Red Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream (Russian Edition) by Koenker, Diane [Hardcover]

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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

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Item Weight0 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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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.