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

Index 303

Latvia, 187
Lefort’s paradox, 8, 127, 285
leisure: utility of, 1, 12–13, 89
Lenin, Vladimir Il'ich, 183, 259
Leningrad (Petrograd), 106, 132, 140, 228,
267; accommodations in, 75; rest homes
in, 20
Leningrad region, 110
Lenin-Stalin Mausoleum (Moscow), 227
Lermontov, Mikhail (writer), 17, 26
Levenstein, Harvey, 256
light therapy, 42
Lithuania, 187
Löfgren, Orvar, 7, 91, 246, 256
lottery for tourist trips, 114
Love and Pigeons (Liubov ' i golubi) (fi lm),
198, 202

MacCannell, Dean, 8, 103, 127, 246, 249,
283
mare’s milk ( kumys) therapy, 33, 42
Marianske Lazne (Czechoslovakia), 271
marketing of tourism, 80, 82, 83 , 84 , 85,
160, 225, 267
Markov, Georgi, 250, 272 n30
massovik (group cultural leader), 155, 165,
279
Matsesta baths (Sochi), 27, 28, 163, 176,
271
Matthews, Mervyn, 199
medicine: complaints about, 135; in health
spas, 39–40, 42, 173, 175–179; postwar
expansion of, 151; in rest homes, 21, 40,
175; role of professionals in, 131, 165;
role in vacations, 4, 15, 147, 150; and
tourism, 257
Medvedev, Dmitrii, 27
Men'shov, Vladimir (fi lm director), 198
Mexico, 240
Mikhalkov, Sergei (playwright), 255
Millar, James R., 285 n7
Miller, Wright, 254
Ministry of Health (Commissariat of Public
Health): administration of health spas
by, 9, 19, 139, 164, 173, 188; decrees of,
18, 25; rest home network of, 20
Ministry of Trade, 140
Moldavia, 230
Mongolia, 240
Moscow, 115, 120, 227, 228; accommoda-
tions in, 75; as destination in 1930s,
106–107; museums in, 106, 120, 150,
227; as postwar destination, 132, 140,
149, 150; rest homes in, 21; tourists
from, 228

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (Moskva

slezam ne verit) (fi lm), 169, 219, 255

Moscow metro, 92, 106, 115, 251

Moscow region, 110, 111

Moscow Tourist Club, 142–143

Murmansk tourist base, 79

music: in health spas regime, 153, 182

Mytishchi wagon-building plant, 64

nationalism: of Soviet tourists, 181–182,

249–250

national parks: United States, 109, 223

nature reserves, 109

Nesterova, Mariia A. (artist), 133

Netherlands, 264

neurasthenia, 15

New Soviet Person: collectivism of, 58;

created through tourism, 211, 259; defi -

nition of, 7

Noack, Christian, 216 n20

North Caucasus, 16, 132, 229

Novo-Afonskoi tourist base (Abkhaziia), 274

nudism, 95

nutrition as therapy, 15, 42, 45

ocean cruises: in 1930s, 113–114; amenities

of, 269–270; Arctic, 108, 236 ; to Asia,

240; Black Sea, 110, 226; cultural activi-

ties on, 234–235; expansion of, 233–236;

German, 68; and knowledge-building,

258; as package tour, 106; prices of,

235–236, 237

Odessa, 134, 184, 187; cruises from, 79,

110, 234

Oka River boating camps, 111

Okhramchuk (tourist), 114–115

Old Walls (Starye steny) (fi lm), 202

One Summer (Odnazhdy letom) (fi lm), 88,

103

On Land and On Sea (magazine), 56,

73–74; in marketing, 82–83; nostalgia

for, 141; on tramping, 101; trip diaries

in, 98; on women tourists, 121

Ordzhonikidze sanatorium (Sochi), 157

Osoaviakhim, 114

Ossetian Military Highway, 104

Ostrovskii, Nikolai, Literature-Memorial

Museum (Sochi), 153 n63

Oswiecim (Auschwitz), 247

package tours: in 1930s, 66, 103; in 1960s,

223–224; appeal to women of, 255–256;

food supply for, 78; groups on, 8, 105; as

inauthentic, 103; insurance support for,

73; pricing of, 105–106, 224, 226, 233–236;