The Proletarian Tourist in the 1930s 93and “The Process of Getting Water” all left the audience yawning. Young
men and women on the march should not only collect plant specimens and
observe the lives of culturally different populations but also sing, play games,
make music, and enjoy themselves. Some games so alarmed visiting German
On foot along the Volga. “It is unacceptable to turn tourist outings into boring bureaucratic
monotony with canned lectures and activities.... You can seek out bracing sunny itinerar-
ies, boating excursions, voyages on big steamships.... Here is an itinerary for the Zhiguli
hills: ‘Samara to Krasnaia Glinka—on foot along the Volga.’” Na sushe i na more, no. 16
(1934): 11.