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Club Red : vacation travel and the Soviet dream /

The Bolsheviks took power in Russia 1917 armed with an ideology centered on the power of the worker. From the beginning, however, Soviet leaders also realized the need for rest and leisure within the new proletarian society and over subsequent decades struggled to reconcile the concept of leisure wi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Koenker, Diane, 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : vacations, tourism, and the paradoxes of Soviet culture
  • Mending the human motor
  • Proletarian tourism : the best form of rest
  • The proletarian tourist in the 1930s : seeking the good life on the road
  • Restoring vacations after the war
  • From treatment to vacation : the post-Stalin consumer regime
  • Post-proletarian tourism : the new Soviet person takes to the road
  • The modernization of Soviet tourism
  • Conclusion : Soviet vacations and the modern world.