Turizm: The Russian and East European Tourist under Capitalism and Socialism

Published by Cornell University Press 2006

Turizm

The Russian and East European Tourist under Capitalism and Socialism

Edited by: Anne E. Gorsuch and Diane P. Koenker

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501727238

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Anne E. Gorsuch is Associate Professor of History at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Youth in Revolutionary Russia: Enthusiasts, Bohemians, Delinquents. Diane P. Koenker is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Editor of Slavic Review. She is the author of several books, including Republic of Labor: Russian Printers and Soviet Socialism, 1918-1930, also from Cornell.

Reviews

We still lack a clear understanding of what motivates the Eastern European tourist, what they are escaping, and what experiences they seek. This excellent, necessary book begins to fill those gaps. Anne E. Gorsuch and Diane P. Koenker have assembled fourteen essays of consistently high quality.

Shelley Baranowski, The University of Akron:

Turizm permits a close examination of continuities and discontinuities between capitalism and socialism using the lens of tourism, specifically the tensions between noncommercial versus commercial and purposeful versus leisure travel. Because it focuses on the Russian empire and Soviet internationalism, it is on the cutting edge of discussions about the contributions of tourism to the construction and maintenance of empire.

Theodore R. Weeks, Southern Illinois University:

Turizm contains numerous very new, well-argued, and interesting accounts of hitherto-unknown aspects of tourism and leisure in Eastern Europe. I am delighted that this book bridges at least two important watersheds-1917 and the Russia-Eastern Europe divide. This is rarely done and is to be applauded.

Lewis Siegelbaum, Michigan State University:

Like the ideal tourist excursion, this collection offers a richly rewarding experience that is both intellectually stimulating and fun. One learns a great deal about tourists and tourism in Russia and Eastern Europe and thereby gains new insight into the spatial dimensions of nation-building, the curious blend of military voyeurism and emotion-charged patriotism among battlefield visitors, the precursors of 'fraternal' relations among Communist-bloc countries, the difference between proper (proletarian) excursions and wandering, the importance of travel writing and other 'cultural mediators' in the shaping of popular attitudes, and myriad other fascinating and even touching subjects. The essays contain numerous cross-references and comparisons, and are studded with evocative (and instructive!) illustrations. The editors are to be congratulated for having done such a splendid job in producing a collection that is of such a consistently high quality.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Travels in Capitalist Russia and Eastern Europe
1. The Prerevolutionary Russian Tourist: Commercialization in the IX I Nineteenth Century Louise McReynolds Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2. Russian Military Tourism: The Crisis of the Crimean War Period Susan Layton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
3. From Friends of Nature to Tourist-Soldiers: Nation Building and Tourism in Hungary, I873-I9I4 Alexander Vari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
4. Slavic Emotion and Vernacular Cosmopolitanism: Yugoslav Travels to Czechoslovakia in the I920S and I930S Noah W. Sobe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
5. "One Breath for Every Two Strides": The State's Attempt to Construct Tourism and Identity in Interwar Latvia Aldis Purs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Part II: Socialist Tourism
6. The Proletarian Tourist in the I930S: Between Mass Excursion and Mass Escape Diane P. Koenker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
7. Al'pinizm as Mass Sport and Elite Recreation: Soviet Mountaineering Camps under Stalin Eva Maurer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
8. "Where Each Stone Is History": Travel Guides in Sevastopol after World War II Karl D. Quails Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
9. Marketing Socialism: Inturist in the Late 1950s and Early 1960s Shawn Salmon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
10. Time Travelers: Soviet Tourists to Eastern Europe Anne E. Gorsuch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
11. Books and Borders: Sergei Obraztsov and Soviet Travels to London in the 1950s Eleonory Gilburd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
12. Adventures in the Marketplace: Yugoslav Travel Writing and Tourism in the 1950s-1960s Wendy Bracewell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	248
13. East German Nature Tourism, 1945-1961: In Search of a Common Destination Scott Moranda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266
14. Coping with the Tourist: Planned and "Wild" Mass Tourism on the Soviet Black Sea Coast Christian Noack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 328
Illustrations
- Other: 31 halftones
Keywords: Soviet & East European History; History; Travel Guides & Travel Writing

eBook

Published: September 5, 2018
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