Turizm

by Gorsuch, Anne E.; Koenker, Diane P.

• ISBN13: 9780801473289
• ISBN10: 0801473284
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-16
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

Summary

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 approac

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Travels in Capitalist Russia and Eastern Europe
The Prerevolutionary Russian Tourist: Commercialization in the Nineteenth Century	p. 17
Russian Military Tourism: The Crisis of the Crimean War Period	p. 43
From Friends of Nature to Tourist-Soldiers: Nation Building and Tourism in Hungary, 1873-1914	p. 64
Slavic Emotion and Vernacular Cosmopolitanism: Yugoslav Travels to Czechoslovakia in the 1920s and 1930s	p. 82
"One Breath for Every Two Strides": The State's Attempt to Construct Tourism and Identity in Interwar Latvia	p. 97
Socialist Tourism
The Proletarian Tourist in the 1930s: Between Mass Excursion and Mass Escape	p. 119
Al'pinizm as Mass Sport and Elite Recreation: Soviet Mountaineering Camps under Stalin	p. 141
"Where Each Stone Is History": Travel Guides in Sevastopol after World War II	p. 163
Marketing Socialism: Inturist in the Late 1950s and Early 1960s	p. 186
Time Travelers: Soviet Tourists to Eastern Europe	p. 205
Books and Borders: Sergei Obraztsov and Soviet Travels to London in the 1950s	p. 227
Adventures in the Marketplace: Yugoslav Travel Writing and Tourism in the 1950s-1960s	p. 248
East German Nature Tourism, 1945-1961: In Search of a Common Destination	p. 266
Coping with the Tourist: Planned and "Wild" Mass Tourism on the Soviet Black Sea Coast	p. 281
List of Contributors	p. 305
Index	p. 307
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