Contents
Acknowledgments ix
List of Abbreviations xi
Introduction: Vacations, Tourism, and the Paradoxes of
Soviet Culture 1
- Mending the Human Motor 12
- Proletarian Tourism: The Best Form of Rest 53
- The Proletarian Tourist in the 1930s: Seeking the Good Life
on the Road 89
- Restoring Vacations after the War 128
- From Treatment to Vacation: The Post-Stalin Consumer Regime 167
- Post-proletarian Tourism: The New Soviet Person Takes
to the Road 210
- The Modernization of Soviet Tourism 262
Conclusion: Soviet Vacations and the Modern World 280
Bibliography 287
Index 299