CfP: Subjectivities after Stalin: The Khrushchev and Brezhnev Eras
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CfP: Subjectivities after Stalin: The Khrushchev and Brezhnev Eras

Subjectivities after Stalin: The Khrushchev and Brezhnev Eras  Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation April 25-26, 2014 Deadline for submitting abstracts: November 15, 2013 Deadline for submitting full papers: April 1, 2014  The European University at Saint Petersburg, together with Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Goznak” launched a Call for Papers for their upcoming conference “Subjectivities after Stalin: The Khrushchev and...

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All This is Your World
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All This is Your World

Gorsuch, Anne E. All This is Your World: Soviet Tourism at Home and Abroad after Stalin 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. This book...

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