Vacations, Tourism, and Socialist Consumption in the Post-Stalin USSR In the Soviet Union the idea of ‘vacation’ was never simple. 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. In her lecture Prof Diane Koenker will tell about holiday making and tourism in the post-Stalin Soviet culture. Diane Koenker is a Professor of History and a Professor of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Centre at the University of Illinois. She is a specialist on the Soviet Union and her research interest areas include twentieth-century Russian and Soviet social history, comparative working-class history, consumer societies and everyday life, leisure and tourism. Prof Koenker is the author of numerous publications including the book Club Red: Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream (2013), and is the co-editor of Turizm: The Russian and East European Tourist under Capitalism and Socialism (2006). Nov 26 2015 17.15 - 17.15 Vacations, Tourism, and Socialist Consumption in the Post-Stalin USSR In this lecture Prof Diane Koenker will talk on the subject of holidays and tourism in the post-Stalin Soviet culture. The Princess Dashkova Russian Centre 14 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh EH8 9LN Find the venue
Vacations, Tourism, and Socialist Consumption in the Post-Stalin USSR In the Soviet Union the idea of ‘vacation’ was never simple. 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. In her lecture Prof Diane Koenker will tell about holiday making and tourism in the post-Stalin Soviet culture. Diane Koenker is a Professor of History and a Professor of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Centre at the University of Illinois. She is a specialist on the Soviet Union and her research interest areas include twentieth-century Russian and Soviet social history, comparative working-class history, consumer societies and everyday life, leisure and tourism. Prof Koenker is the author of numerous publications including the book Club Red: Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream (2013), and is the co-editor of Turizm: The Russian and East European Tourist under Capitalism and Socialism (2006). Nov 26 2015 17.15 - 17.15 Vacations, Tourism, and Socialist Consumption in the Post-Stalin USSR In this lecture Prof Diane Koenker will talk on the subject of holidays and tourism in the post-Stalin Soviet culture. The Princess Dashkova Russian Centre 14 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh EH8 9LN Find the venue
Nov 26 2015 17.15 - 17.15 Vacations, Tourism, and Socialist Consumption in the Post-Stalin USSR In this lecture Prof Diane Koenker will talk on the subject of holidays and tourism in the post-Stalin Soviet culture.
