Club Red. Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream - Diane P. Koenker
6 Introduction ing ancient art and architecture, regain one’s equilibrium in preparation for the return to work, kindle one’s hi ...
Vacations, Tourism, and the Paradoxes of Soviet Culture 7 that consumption had always been a central element of the Soviet dream ...
8 Introduction tourists or the groups of twenty-fi ve, one hundred, or two hundred that com- prised the standard package tour. T ...
Vacations, Tourism, and the Paradoxes of Soviet Culture 9 The Soviet preoccupation with the meaning of tourist travel originated ...
10 Introduction through the agencies of the trade unions, outside the formal parameters of the state and market alike. This book ...
Vacations, Tourism, and the Paradoxes of Soviet Culture 11 bourgeois tourist industry, in which hotels and their associated serv ...
chapter one Mending the Human Motor M aterialist and Marxist, the Soviet Union subscribed to the labor theory of value, privileg ...
Mending the Human Motor 13 debates about building vacation institutions and allocating access to them. Alongside these debates, ...
14 Chapter 1 rendered in English as “rest,” its meaning for Soviet culture is a much more active one. Under socialism, wrote one ...
Mending the Human Motor 15 increased energy to his customary work.”^10 By the end of the imperial regime, the rise of profession ...
16 Chapter 1 Sites of Leisure and Restoration: Kurort and Rest Home Serious socialist vacationing in the Soviet Union built on t ...
Mending the Human Motor 17 Essentuki, Piatigorsk, Kislovodsk, and Zheleznovodsk. It was here that Russian military offi cers, in ...
18 Chapter 1 as sanatoria and health institutions for workers and peasants.” The Com- missariat of Public Health received orders ...
Mending the Human Motor 19 This pattern too would persist: the central command economy was riddled with independent institutiona ...
20 Chapter 1 care system. Despite its democratic foundations, the Soviet spa system drew aesthetic inspiration from prerevolutio ...
Mending the Human Motor 21 operated by the city’s labor department; Moscow followed suit four months later, but here the city’s ...
22 Chapter 1 occupations of philandering and drinking. No wonder they cut their stays short, wrote a worker correspondent. Marri ...
Mending the Human Motor 23 of production.^30 A certain number of state homes were consequently turned over to individual enterpr ...
24 Chapter 1 Pleasure and purpose combined even more closely in a new form of rest home that took its place in the roster of hea ...
Mending the Human Motor 25 its rich variety of fl ora and fauna, landscape, scenery, historical civilizations, and ethnic groups ...
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