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

Index 307

historical destinations, 275; and hopes

for change, 212; and kurort regime, 179,

181; on New Soviet Person, 211

Twenty-Second Congress of the Commu-

nist Party of the Soviet Union (1961),

181, 211

Ukraina steamship, 114

Ukraine: as 1940s destination, 128; revival

of tourism in, 141; Society for Proletar-

ian Tourism and Excursion members

from, 67; tourism administration of, 196,

273

Union of Writers vacation homes, 199

United Arab Republic, 240

United States, 240

unorganized vacationers, 191, 201; in

1930s, 51; and access to food, 195; as

families, 207; scale of, 194–196, 264

Urals, 108–109, 229

Urbain, Jean-Didier, 4, 227

Urry, John, 7, 94, 246

Uzbekistan, 230

Uzhgorod (Ukraine), 230–231

vacations: access to, 186; administration
of, 158; annual, 14; as consumer object,
51; defi ned, 3, 13–14; excess demand
for, 52; as incentives, 15; for industrial
workers, 35; industry of, 263; postwar
restoration of, 128–129, 131; prefer-
ences for, 283; seasonality of, 187; and
welfare, 12; in Western Europe, 68,
264–265, 280
Vail', Petr, 211, 215, 223
Varna (Bulgaria), 272
Vecherniaia Moskva , 82, 87 n74
Verdery, Katherine, 171
Vietnam, 240
Volga River cruises. See river cruises
Volga-Volga (fi lm), 109
Vol'kenshtein, S. S. (chair of Moscow club
of automobile tourists), 236
voluntary associations in USSR, 63 n27
Vyshnevskii, Vsevolod (writer), 129, 137

wage inequalities: in 1930s, 196; in 1960s,

197

weekend: 1968 law on, 214

Werth, Alexander, 163

White Sea-Baltic Canal, 108, 110, 116

women: and access to health spas,

201–202; as consumers, 256; as inde-

pendent tourists, 98; in package tours,

120, 255–256; and postwar vacations,

148; and priority for putevki, 131; and

sex abroad, 244; in tourist groups, 96;

as tourists, 121, 149, 284; as tourists

abroad, 282

workers, industrial: and access to health

spas, 31, 32, 35; and access to vacations,

198, 281; as consumers, 201; culture

at health spas, 40; and leisure, 89; as

postwar tourists, 148; and priority for

putevki, 29, 30, 131, 147, 196–197; and

tourism, 70, 119–121; as tourists abroad,

253–254

World War II: in cultural activities, 181,

183; destruction by, 130; expectations

after, 161; on foreign tourism itineraries,

245, 249; historical sites of, 259; impact

on vacation culture of, 10, 128

Yalta (Crimea), 16, 26, 49 , 106, 134. See

also Crimea

Yalta sanatorium of Ministry of Heavy

Industry, 178

Yanowitch, Murray, 197

Yasnaia Poliana, 79, 111

Yellowstone National Park, 109

Yerofeyev, Viktor, 285

Yugoslavia, 137 n26, 159, 280

Yurchak, Alexei, 8, 127

Zelenyi Mys tourist base (Georgia), 118

Zemliachka, Rozalia (Soviet offi cial), 18

Zhdanov, Andrei, 165

Zheleznovodsk (Caucasus Mineral Waters),

17, 26

Zubkova, Elena, 161

Zvenigorod (Moscow region), 111, 142 , 181