The Soviet Behind the Looking-Glass. Foreign Tourism in the USSR in the 1930s-1980s
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For the first time the phenomenon of foreign tourism in the USSR became the subject of a special integrated study of historians. The book provides a multifold analysis of its development during the long historical period - from the beginning of the 1930s till the first half of the 1980s. Particular attention is drawn to disclosure of propagandistic component in the work with foreign tourists. Through the perspective of ideological struggle the book embraces a wide range of issues. Besides, it dwells upon the publicity campaigns during the period of Festival-57 and Olympics-80.