ISBN:
9783447197885
,
3447197889
Language:
German
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (358 pages)
Series Statement:
Forschungen zur osteuropäischen Geschichte v. 85
DDC:
910
Keywords:
Inturist
;
Geschichte 1953-1982
;
Tourismus
;
Auslandsreise
;
Ferntourismus
;
Reiseverhalten
;
Kultur
;
International travel History
;
Russians Travel
;
History
;
Tourism Government policy
;
Tourism History
;
Visitors, Foreign History
;
Sowjetunion
;
Tschechoslowakei
;
Polen
;
Hochschulschrift
Abstract:
Global tourism expanded rapidly in the second half of the 20th century. The travel industry developed into a key economic and cultural sector. It symbolizes the growing importance of the service sector and the increasing mobility of modern societies. Little is known about the role of the Soviet Union in the global travel business, because the Soviet Union was considered a state that radically restricted the freedom of movement of its citizens. After Stalin's death, the USSR experienced its own "travel boom", which took hundreds of thousands of Soviet tourists abroad in the course of the 1960s and 70s. Travel in Soviet analyzes this development on the basis of extensive archival research. It describes the motives of the Soviet leadership, to enable its own citizens to travel abroad and describes the associated institutional reforms. It also deals with foreign tourism as a cultural practice, i.e. how Soviet tourists behaved beyond their own borders, interacted with foreigners and processed their experiences. Administrative, institutional and and cultural history of the eras of rule of Khrushchev and Brezhnev in the context of the ongoing social change in the face of an increasingly permeable "Iron Curtain" are thus linked.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-332) and index
DOI:
10.2307/j.ctv1dv0svh
URL:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1dv0svh
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