All This Is Your World: Soviet Tourism at Home and Abroad After Stalin

by Anne E. Gorsuch

Book Overview

In the Khrushchev era, Soviet citizens were newly encouraged to imagine themselves exploring the medieval towers of Tallinn's Old Town, relaxing on the Romanian Black Sea coast, even climbing the Eiffel Tower. By the mid 1960s, hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens each year crossed previously closed Soviet borders to travel abroad. All this is your World explores the revolutionary integration of the Soviet Union into global processes of cultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019967793X
• ISBN13: 9780199677931
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"