Turizm : : The Russian and East European Tourist under Capitalism and Socialism / / ed. by Diane P. Koenker, Anne E. Gorsuch.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bracewell, Wendy,; Gilburd, Eleonory,; Gorsuch, Anne E.,; Koenker, Diane P.,; Layton, Susan,; Maurer, Eva,; McReynolds, Louise,; Moranda, Scott,; Noack, Christian,; Purs, Aldis,; Quails, Karl D.,; Salmon, Shawn,; Sobe, Noah W.,; Vari, Alexander,
• HerausgeberIn: Gorsuch, Anne E.,; Koenker, Diane P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 31 halftones

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Travels in Capitalist Russia and Eastern Europe -- 1. The Prerevolutionary Russian Tourist: Commercialization in the IX I Nineteenth Century -- 2. Russian Military Tourism: The Crisis of the Crimean War Period -- 3. From Friends of Nature to Tourist-Soldiers: Nation Building and Tourism in Hungary, I873-I9I4 -- 4. Slavic Emotion and Vernacular Cosmopolitanism: Yugoslav Travels to Czechoslovakia in the I920S and I930S -- 5. "One Breath for Every Two Strides": The State's Attempt to Construct Tourism and Identity in Interwar Latvia -- Part II: Socialist Tourism -- 6. The Proletarian Tourist in the I930S: Between Mass Excursion and Mass Escape -- 7. Al'pinizm as Mass Sport and Elite Recreation: Soviet Mountaineering Camps under Stalin -- 8. "Where Each Stone Is History": Travel Guides in Sevastopol after World War II -- 9. Marketing Socialism: Inturist in the Late 1950s and Early 1960s -- 10. Time Travelers: Soviet Tourists to Eastern Europe -- 11. Books and Borders: Sergei Obraztsov and Soviet Travels to London in the 1950s -- 12. Adventures in the Marketplace: Yugoslav Travel Writing and Tourism in the 1950s-1960s -- 13. East German Nature Tourism, 1945-1961: In Search of a Common Destination -- 14. Coping with the Tourist: Planned and "Wild" Mass Tourism on the Soviet Black Sea Coast -- List of Contributors -- Index