UID:
almafu_9961382115102883
Format:
1 online resource (227 pages).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-429-57500-9
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0-429-20112-5
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0-429-57711-7
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe
Content:
The Iron Curtain was not an impenetrable divide, and contacts between East and West took place regularly and on various levels throughout the Cold War. This book explores how the European tourist industry transcended the ideological fault lines and the communist states attracted an ever-increasing number of Western tourists. Based on extensive original research, it examines the ramifications of tourism, from sun-and-sea package tours to human rights travels, in key Eastern European locations including East Berlin, the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and Albania. The book's analysis of the politics, culture, and history of tourism to the East offers important new perspectives on European tourism in the twentieth century.
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of abbreviations -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Crossing the Iron Curtain: an introduction -- Part I Organising Western tourism in the East -- 1 Exporting holidays: Bulgarian tourism in the Scandinavian market in the 1960s and 1970s -- 2 The lure of capitalism: foreign tourists and the shadow economy in Romania, 1960-1989 -- 3 Experiencing communism, bolstering capitalism: guided bus tours of 1970s East Berlin -- Part II Encounters -- 4 The Artek camp for Young Pioneers and the many faces of socialist internationalism -- 5 Foreign tourists, domestic encounters: human rights travel to Soviet Jewish homes -- 6 "Much more freedom of thought than expected there": Rosey E. Pool, a Dutch fellow traveller on holiday in the Soviet Union (1965) -- 7 The Stalinist utopia of the Adriatic: Swedish tourists in communist Albania -- Part III The politics of tourism during the Cold War -- 8 Playing the tourism card: Yugoslavia, advertising, and the Euro-Atlantic tourism network in the early Cold War -- 9 Making Iron Curtain overflights legal: Soviet-Scandinavian aviation negotiations in the early Cold War -- 10 Concluding remarks: tourism across a porous curtain -- Index.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-367-77727-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-367-19212-8
Language:
English
