300 Index
Brodsky, Joseph (poet), 223
Bulgaria, 241, 248, 250; health resorts in,
263–264, 271–272
Buriatiia, 275
Bushnell, John, 242campfi res, 97, 218, 223, 250
card-playing, 40–41
Carpathian Mountains, 231
Caspian Sea, 278
Caucasian Mineral Waters: and family
vacations, 39; in nineteenth century, 16,
17, 24, 26; prestige of, 163, 200; social
composition of vacationers in, 31–33, 36
Caucasian Riviera spa (Sochi), 16
Caucasus Mountains, 1, 106, 115–116, 131;
health conditions in, 92
Central Asia, 108, 187, 229–230; tourists
from, 243, 244, 258
Central Trade Union Council, 9; and health
spa administration, 18, 164, 175, 188, 193;
and health spa quotas, 30, 196; Higher
School Department of Tourism of, 267;
and tourism, 73, 132, 141, 212–213
Ceylon, 240
children, 37, 201, 204, 206. See also family
vacations; pioneer camps
China, 240; tourists from, 150
climate therapy, 15, 18, 25
Club Méditerranée, 6
comfort: in rest homes, 138; in tourist
travel, 260, 268, 269; as vacation ideal,
136, 156, 161
comment books: on cruises, 235, 270; in
health spas, 135, 149, 179; on railroad
tours, 233; in rest homes, 18; in tourist
bases, 156, 269
Commissariat of Enlightenment (Narkom-
pros; later Ministry of Education), 54,
60, 62, 75, 213
Commissariat of Public Health. See
Ministry of Health
Commissariat of Transportation, 61–62
Communist Party of the USSR: 1961 pro-
gram of, 181 n36, 182, 211, 284; decrees
on tourism and travel of, 214, 263;
health spa access of members of, 18, 33
complaints, 118, 136, 184. See also
individual services
Constitution of the Russian Federation,
1993, 278
Constitution of the USSR, 1936, 6, 34, 285
consumer culture, 262; in Eastern Europe,
251–252; in service sector, 80consumption: and choice, 197, 283; and
commodities, 184; as incentive, 34–35;
planning for, 208; and preferences, 200,
201, 207; regimes of, 170; under social-
ism, 2, 170–171; as status signifi er, 196;
theories of, 2; of travel, 172–173
Crete, 279
Crimea, 25; as destination, 106, 116,
132, 163, 259; health spas in, 25, 26;
in nineteenth century, 16, 25; postwar
restoration of, 134; social composition
of vacationers in, 33; unorganized vaca-
tioners in, 194
Crimean War battlefi elds, 26
Crowley, David, 6
cruises. See ocean cruises; river cruises
cultural activities: complaints about, 118,
136; in health spas, 45–47, 152–155,
181–182, 183; as outdoor lectures, 46 ;
patriotic, 181; postwar, 152; in tourist
bases, 155
cultural revolution (1928–1932), 56, 63
cultural workers, 46, 155. See also
massovik
Czechoslovakia, 241, 245, 247, 249, 271;
consumerism in, 251; cuisine of, 248;
and inhospitality toward Soviet tourists,
249dancing: in fi lms, 49; at health spas, 40,
153; as offensive, 248; regulation of,
153 – 154; in rest homes, 48, 154 ; in
Sochi, 283; in tourist bases, 112
Darasun rest home (Chita oblast), 48
Darwin Museum (Moscow), 120
David-Fox, Michael, 113 n63
decrees: of 1920, 17–18; of 1921, 25; on
nationalization of spas, 1919, 12 n1; on
Sochi, 28; on tourism, 213, 214, 266, 273
de Grazia, Victoria, 170
Delone, Boris (mathematician), 72, 219 n30
dental clinics, 151, 176
de-Stalinization: periodization of, 131
destinations: expansion in 1960s of, 227;
preferences for, 187, 224, 230. See also
individual destinations
Dinamo plant (Moscow), 70
Dnepr River, 64
Dneprstroi tourist base, 78
Dolzhenko, G. P., 242
Dopolavero (After Work) (Italy), 5
Dubna, 216
Dunham, Vera, 131 n6
Dushkin, Aleksei (architect), 167