"Мы ищем то, чего не теряли": советские "дикари" в поисках места под солнцем
Journal: Ab imperio
Year: 2012

The article analyzes the "wild tourism" in the post-1950s' Soviet Union as a cultural, lifestyle, and economic phenomenon. It scrutinizes the social, economic, and psychological reasons for the spread of "wild" vacations at Soviet resorts. Individual accounts and official documents are analyzed together with popular Soviet films such as 3+2, Be My Husband , and Sportlotto-82 . The author studies infrastructural policies in the Crimea that emerged in response to the growing tourist and vacation b