Club Red. Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream - Diane P. Koenker

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Acknowledgments


I take great pleasure in recognizing the support and help I have re-
ceived in preparing this book. The University of Illinois has assisted my
work in many ways, including grants from the Research Board and a Mellon
Faculty Fellowship. The staff of the Slavic Library and Reference Service at
the University of Illinois and particularly Helen Sullivan have located and
acquired crucial materials and have been an essential source of assistance
throughout this project. I am also grateful for support for research travel and
writing time from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the International
Research and Exchanges Board, the National Council for Eurasian and East
European Research, and the U.S. State Department Title VIII program, which
underwrites many of these agencies and services.
It is a privilege to acknowledge the support from the staffs of archives
and libraries who assisted me: the State Archive of the Russian Federation,
Central State Archive of Moscow Oblast, Russian State Archive of Cinema
and Photo Documents, the Komsomol archive of the Russian State Archive of
Social and Political History, the Central Archive of the City of Moscow, the
Central Archive of Saint Petersburg, the State Archive of the City of Sochi,
the Russian State Library in Moscow, the Russian National Library in St.
Petersburg, the British Library, and the library of the School of Slavonic and
East European Studies, University College London. I thank the Society for
the Comparative Study of Society and History for permission to republish
some material that appeared initially as “Whose Right to Rest? Contesting
the Family Vacation in the Postwar Soviet Union,” Comparative Studies in
Society and History 51, no. 2 (April 2009), 401–425.
Expert research assistance came from Christine Varga-Harris, Randall Dills,
Erica Fraser, Maria Cristina Galmarini, and Lyudmila Kuznetsova. I have ben-
efi ted from discussions and comments by audiences in London, Sheffi eld,
Bielefeld, Berlin, and St. Petersburg, but I particularly wish to thank the par-
ticipants of the Russkii Kruzhok and the History Workshop reading groups at
the University of Illinois and especially my colleagues Mark Steinberg, John
Randolph, Valeria Sobol, Lilya Kaganovsky, and Harriet Murav. Christian
Noack, Eva Maurer, and Julian Graffy have generously shared insights and
sources. Lewis Siegelbaum, a fellow traveler on our journey through Soviet

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