From: "Serguei Alex. Oushakine" <oushakin@Princeton.EDU>

TURIZM: The Russian and East European Tourist under Capitalism and Socialism

Anne E. Gorsuch (Editor); Diane P. Koenker (Editor)

In the Soviet Union and the eastern bloc, the idea of “vacation” was never
as uncomplicated as throwing some suitcases in the car and heading for the
beach. The emphasis was on individual self-improvement within the
framework of the collective, an approach manifest in everything from the
scheduling of physical exercise to the group tours organized for factory
workers, Party cadres, and other segments of society. Like other
Soviet-style utopian projects, socialist tourism, which was often heavily
laden with rules and prescriptions, was a consciousness-raising project,
part of the vast effort to forge new socialist men and women.

Turizm is the first book to examine the history of tourism in Russia and
eastern Europe from the tsarist period to the age of Soviet and east
European mass tourism in the 1960s and 1970s. The contributors to this
volume address topics including the roots of socialist tourism, the role
of tourism in the making of nations and maintenance of empire, and ways in
which the men and women of the “margins of Europe” understood themselves
in relation to “Europe.” Especially interesting are chapters that show how
individuals pursued their own consumerist goals within the framework of
collective tourism, obliging the regimes to adapt. Illustrated with period
photographs and promotional materials, Turizm will appeal not only to
historians of the region but also to anyone with an interest in
consumer culture, travel, leisure, and nation-building.

Wendy Bracewell, SSEES, University College London
Eleonory Gilburd, University of California, Berkeley
Anne E. Gorsuch, University of British Columbia
Diane P. Koenker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Susan Layton, Strathclyde University, Glasgow
Eva Maurer, University of Mьnster
Louise McReynolds, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Scott Moranda, SUNY-Cortland
Christian Noack, Bielefield University
Aldis Purs, University of Manchester
Karl D. Qualls, Dickinson College
Shawn Salmon, University of California, Berkeley
Noah W. Sobe, Loyola University, Chicago
Alexander Vari, Carnegie Mellon University

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