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Club Red: Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream. By Diane P. Koenker. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013. x, 307 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Tables. $39.95, hard bound.

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Club Red: Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream. By Diane P. Koenker. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013. x, 307 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Tables. $39.95, hard bound.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

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University College, Oxford
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References

1 Gorsuch, Anne E. and Koenker, Diane P., eds., Turizm: The Russian and East European Tourist under Capitalism and Socialism (Ithaca, 2006);CrossRefGoogle Scholar Gorsuch, Anne E., All This Is Your World: Soviet Tourism at Home and Abroad after Stalin (Oxford, 2011).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 On ideas of sacrifice versus reward, see, e.g., Smith, Mark, Property of Communists: The Urban Housing Program from Stalin to Khrushchev (DeKalb, 2010).Google Scholar On notions of pleasure, see Crowley, David and Reid, Susan E., eds., Pleasures of Socialism: Leisure and Luxury in the Eastern Bloc (Evanston, 2012).Google Scholar

3 For a classic treatment of this theme, see Millar, James R., “The Little Deal: Brezhnev's Contribution to Acquisitive Socialism,” Slavic Review 44, no. 4 (Winter 1985): 694706.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4 See Reid, Susan E., “Cold War in the Kitchen: Gender and the DeStalinization of Consumer Taste in the Soviet Union under Khrushchev,” Slavic Review 61, no. 2 (Summer 2002): 211–52.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

5 On “wild tourism,” see Noack, Christian, “Coping with the Tourist: Planned and ‘Wild’ Mass Tourism on the Soviet Black Sea Coast,” in Gorsuch, and Koenker, , eds., Turizm, 281304.Google Scholar

6 Cf., e.g., Bittner, Steven V., “Local Soviets, Public Order, and Welfare after Stalin: Appeals from Moscow's Kiev Raion,” Russian Review 62, no. 2 (April 2003): 281–93.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

7 On mass uprisings, see Kozlov, Vladimir, Massovye besporiadki v sovetskom soiuze pri Khrushcheve i Brezhneve (Novosibirsk, 1999).Google Scholar On the less serious complaints about housing, see, e.g., Harris, Steven, ‘“I Know All the Secrets of My Neighbors’: The Quest for Privacy in the Era of the Separate Apartment,” in Siegelbaum, Lewis H., ed., Borders of Socialism: Private Spheres of Soviet Russia (New York, 2006), 171–89.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

8 Paul Betts, “The Politics of Plenty: Consumerism in Communist Societies” (conference paper, University of Oxford, September 2013).

9 E.g., Chernyshova, Natalya, Soviet Consumer Culture in the Brezhnev Era (London, 2013).CrossRefGoogle Scholar