The Russian Revolution As a Tourist Attraction

Looking at Soviet guidebooks from the 1920s to the 1960s, this essay argues that 1905 and 1917 revolutionary places as “tourist attractions” were mostly tangential to the tourist experience, although one could argue that the entire USSR was a monument to the “revolution.” The revolution remained one destination of many possible tourist excursions, its memory one building block of many that made up the basis of Soviet citizenship. The revolution as tourist attraction did not celebrate 1917 as a rupture, but rather a point of entry, the moment from which the many and not the few could share in a culture of world importance

Statisticheskiĭ ezhegodnik Sankt Peterburga.

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Selʹsko-khozi͡aĭstvennyĭ obzor Nizhegorodkoĭ gubernii.

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Zapiski. Mémoires.

Mode of access: Internet.Supersedes in part the academy's Mémoires. 7. série

Obzor rabot.

Mode of access: Internet.Issued by the society under its earlier name: Gosudarstvennoe russkoe geograficheskoe obshchestvo

Izvestii͡a.

First series accompanied by supplements.Mode of access: Internet.Superseded by Izvestii͡a po russkomu i͡azyku i slovesnosti of the academy

Izvestii͡a Otdelenii͡a russkogo i͡azyka i slovesnosti Akademii nauk Soi͡uza Sovetskikh Sot͡sialisticheskikh Respublik.

Mode of access: Internet.t. 1-32, 1896-1927. 1 v. (Contains index to the journal under its earlier titles

Sbornik.

Includes the proceedings, annual reports and monographs with special title pages and separate paging, most of them containing biographies and bibliographies of members and men of letters, etc.Includes the proceedings, annual reports and monographs with special title pages and separate paging, most of them containing biographies and bibliographies of members and men of letters, etc.Mode of access: Internet