6. Post-proletarian Tourism: The New Soviet Person Takes to the Road

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. List of Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction: Vacations, Tourism, and the Paradoxes of Soviet Culture 1
6. 1. Mending the Human Motor 12
7. 2. Proletarian Tourism: The Best Form of Rest 53
8. 3. The Proletarian Tourist in the 1930s: Seeking the Good Life on the Road 89
9. 4. Restoring Vacations after the War 128
10. 5. From Treatment to Vacation: The Post-Stalin Consumer Regime 167
11. 6. Post-proletarian Tourism: The New Soviet Person Takes to the Road 210
12. 7. The Modernization of Soviet Tourism 262
13. Conclusion: Soviet Vacations and the Modern World 280
14. Bibliography 287
15. Index 299