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Languages : en
Pages : 263
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Special issue on tourism and travel in Russia and the Soviet Union
Author: Tourism and Travel in Russia and the Soviet Union
Author: Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe
Author: Sabina OwsianowskaPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498543820
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
In Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe: Bridging Worlds, Sabina Owsianowska and Magdalena Banaszkiewicz examine the limitations of the anthropological study of tourism, which stem from both the domination of researchers representing the Anglophone circle as well as the current state of tourism studies in Central and Eastern Europe. This edited collection contributes to the wider discussion of the geopolitics of knowledge through its focus on the anthropological background of tourism studies and its inclusion of contributors from Austria, Bulgaria, Estonia, and Poland.
Turizm
Author: Anne E. GorsuchPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501727230
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
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.
The Business of Tourism
Author: Philip ScrantonPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812239683
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The Business of Tourism transports readers from the foundations of mass leisure travel in 1860s Egypt to contemporary religious sight-seeing in Branson, Missouri; from the Stalinist Soviet Union to post-Soviet Cuba. This collection of ten essays explores the enterprises, institutions, and technologies of tourist activity.
The Private World of Soviet Scientists from Stalin to Gorbachev
Author: Maria RogachevaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108171338
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Rogacheva sheds new light on the complex transition of Soviet society from Stalinism into the post-Stalin era. Using the case study of Chernogolovka, one of dozens of scientific towns built in the USSR under Khrushchev, she explains what motivated scientists to participate in the Soviet project during the Cold War. Rogacheva traces the history of this scientific community from its creation in 1956 through the Brezhnev period to paint a nuanced portrait of the living conditions, political outlook, and mentality of the local scientific intelligentsia. Utilizing new archival materials and an extensive oral history project, this book argues that Soviet scientists were not merely bought off by the Soviet state, but that they bought into the idealism and social optimism of the post-Stalin regime. Many shared the regime's belief in the progressive development of Soviet society on a scientific basis, and embraced their increased autonomy, material privileges and elite status.
Children's Literature and the Avant-Garde
Author: Elina DrukerPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 902726838X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Children’s Literature and the Avant-Garde is the first study that investigates the intricate influence of the avant-garde movements on children’s literature in different countries from the beginning of the 20th century until the present. Examining a wide range of children’s books from Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the USA, the individual chapters explore the historical as well as the cultural and political aspects that determine the exceptional character of avant-garde children’s books. Drawing on studies in children’s literature research, art history, and cultural studies, this volume provides comprehensive insights into the close relationships between avant-garde children’s literature, images of childhood, and contemporary ideas of education. Addressing topics such as the impact of exhibitions, the significance of the Bauhaus, and the influence of poster art and graphic design, the book illustrates the broad range of issues associated with avant-garde children’s books. More than 60 full-color illustrations demonstrate the impressive variety of design in avant-garde picturebooks and children’s books.
The Russian Outbound Travel Market
Author: World Tourism OrganizationPublisher: World Tourism Organization Publications
ISBN: 9789284413041
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The Russian Federation is currently one of the world's fastest growing outbound travel markets, and this growth seems set to continue. Russia is the ninth biggest outbound travel market in the world in terms of expenditure, generating US$ 22.3 billion in spending abroad and 34.3 million outbound trips in 2007. While trip volume rose by 9.4% per year over the period 2000-2007, expenditure increased by an average of 14 % annually during that period. There is no doubt that Russians are very enthusiastic travellers, largely due to the pent-up demand for foreign travel. To better understand the structure and trends of this market is the aim of the new ETC/UNWTO report The Russian Outbound Travel Market with a Special Insight into the Image of Europe as a Destination. This report identifies key trends in Russia outbound travel over the past five years or more - including the market's size and value, growth in trip volume and spending, purpose of trip, the structure and role of the travel trade, online distribution, and other factors driving demand. In addition, the report provides information on government policy affecting outbound travel, notably visa issues and traffic rights for foreign airlines operating to/from the country. All this information is critical to helping NTAs/NTOs and commercial operators plan ahead with greater foresight, providing guidance on both the short-term opportunities and the longer-term potential for investment in the Russian market.
State Laughter
Author: Evgeny DobrenkoPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198840411
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
Stalin's reign of terror was not all doom and gloom, much of it was (meant to be) funny! Tracing the development of official humour, satire, and comedy, Dobrenko and Jonsson-Skradol do away with the idea that all humour in the USSR was subversive, instead exploring why laughter was a core component to the survival of the Soviet regime.
Socialist Modern
Author: Katherine PencePublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472069743
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
This book explores the ways in which modernity shaped the relationship between socialist state and society in East Germany. The reunification of Germany in 1989 may have put an end to the experiment in East German communism, but its historical assessment is far from over. Where most of the literature over the past two decades has been driven by the desire to uncover the relationship between power and resistance, complicity and consent, more recent scholarship has tended to concentrate on the everyday history of East German citizens. experience of life in East Germany, with a particular view toward addressing the question: what did modernity mean for East German state and society? As such, the collection moves beyond the conceptual divide between state-level politics and everyday life so as to bring into sharper focus the specific contours of the GDR's unique experiment in Cold War socialism. What unites all the essays is the question of how the very tensions around socialist modernity shaped the views, memories and actions of East Germans over four decades. the Cold War, Eastern Europe, the history of communism, European social history and the history of everyday life, gender history, as well as modernity and socialist popular culture.