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The Strange Case of the Disappearing Soviet Waiter
In: The Slavonic and East European review: SEER, Band 101, Heft 3, S. 486-514
ISSN: 2222-4327
Abstract: This article explores the phenomenon, causes and attempted solutions to the problem of poor restaurant service in the 1960s Soviet Union. It discusses the role of the restaurant in the dining options of the Soviet urban population, the organization of restaurants, the culture of service and the low status of the waitering trade and economic reforms. It also reconstructs the perspective of the Soviet waiters themselves to examine how they justified the behaviours decried by officials and customers. This exploration reveals a paradox between competing ideals of the 'good life': one of technologically driven satisfaction of biological needs, and the other of promotion of a psychologically rounded good life, in which the whole person merited respect. Lacking that respect and compensated with low wages, Soviet waiters responded with indifferent service.
The Kingdom of Rye: A Brief History of Russian Food by Darra Goldstein
In: The Slavonic and East European review: SEER, Band 100, Heft 4, S. 758-759
ISSN: 2222-4327
Golubev , Aleksey The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia (review)
In: The Slavonic and East European review: SEER, Band 99, Heft 3, S. 589-591
ISSN: 2222-4327
The Smile behind the Sales Counter: Soviet Shop Assistants on the Road to Full Communism
In: Journal of social history, Band 54, Heft 3, S. 872-896
ISSN: 1527-1897
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This article explores the role of sales assistants in Soviet retail trade in the 1960s, who were overwhelmingly female. It investigates the causes of and remedies for what was widely perceived to be rude and grudging service. Soviet customers and officials felt entitled to a positive consumer experience, and managers and trade union officials agonized over the ways to promote and incentivize "service with a smile." In addition to the poor performance of Soviet manufacturing, which produced goods that were difficult to sell, other factors included poor training and minimal education, low prestige, and low pay. This article also highlights the continuities in retail sales culture from the 1920s to the 1960s but emphasizes the increasing role assigned to "emotional labor" as important and necessary work by sales workers.
To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture. By Eleanory Gilburd
In: Journal of social history, Band 54, Heft 1, S. 391-392
ISSN: 1527-1897
The Russian Revolution As a Tourist Attraction
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 76, Heft 3, S. 753-762
ISSN: 2325-7784
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 arupture, but rather a point of entry, the moment from which the many and not the few could share in a culture of world importance.
TV socialism, by Anikó Imre, Durham NC, Duke University Press, 2016, x + 315 pp., US$94.95 (hbk), ISBN 978-0-82-236085-8/US$25.95 (pbk), ISBN 978-0-82-236099-5
In: Canadian Slavonic papers: an interdisciplinary journal devoted to Central and Eastern Europe, Band 59, Heft 3-4, S. 414-416
ISSN: 2375-2475
Everyday Life in Russia Past and Present. Ed. Choi Chatterjee, David L. Ransel, Mary Cavender, and Karen Petrone. Afterword Sheila Fitzpatrick. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2015. xii, 430 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. $90.00, hard bound. $35.00, paper. $...
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 75, Heft 2, S. 513-515
ISSN: 2325-7784
Into the Cosmos: Space Exploration and Soviet Culture. Ed. James T. Andrews and Asif A. Siddiqi. Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011. x, 330 pp. Notes. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. $27.95, paper
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 71, Heft 4, S. 953-954
ISSN: 2325-7784
Spartak Moscow: A History of the People's Team in the Workers' State. By Robert Edelman. Idiaca: Cornell University Press, 2009. xviii, 346 pp. Appendixes. Notes. Index. Photographs. Tables. $35.00, hard bound
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 70, Heft 2, S. 476-477
ISSN: 2325-7784
Whose Right to Rest? Contesting the Family Vacation in the Postwar Soviet Union
In: Comparative studies in society and history, Band 51, Heft 2, S. 401-425
ISSN: 1475-2999
The idea of leisure and vacations in the Soviet Union at first glance suggests a paradox. As a system based on the labor theory of value, the USSR emphasized production as the foundation of wealth, personal worth, and the path to a society of abundance for all. Work—physical or mental—was the obligation of all citizens. But work took its toll on the human organism, and along with creating the necessary incentives and conditions for productive labor a socialist system would also include reproductive rest as an integral element of its economy. The eight-hour work day, a weekly day off from work, and an annual vacation constituted the triad of restorative and healthful rest opportunities in the emerging Soviet system of the 1920s and 1930s.
Scripting the Revolutionary Worker Autobiography: Archetypes, Models, Inventions, and Markets
In: International review of social history, Band 49, Heft 3, S. 371-400
ISSN: 1469-512X
This essay offers approaches to reading worker autobiographies as a genre as well as source of historical "data". It focuses primarily on one example of worker narrative, the autobiographical notes of Eduard M. Dune, recounting his experiences in the Russian Revolution and civil war, and argues that such texts cannot be utilized even as "data" without also appreciating the ways in which they were shaped and constructed. The article proposes some ways to examine the cultural constructions of such documents, to offer a preliminary typology of lower-class autobiographical statements for Russia and the Soviet Union, and to offer some suggestions for bringing together the skills of literary scholars and historians to the task of reading workers' autobiographies.
Travel to Work, Travel to Play: On Russian Tourism, Travel, and Leisure
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 62, Heft 4, S. 657-665
ISSN: 2325-7784
In the introduction to this special issue, Diane P. Koenker discusses the interrelated categories of travel, tourism, and leisure, looking at contrasting definitions of the traveler and the tourist and situating Russian and Soviet experience in a broader literature. Among the themes raised in the issue's articles, she enumerates the quest for knowledge and the premium placed on knowledge-producing travel and leisure activities, the tension between normative values and the desire of tourists and travelers to create their own autonomous experiences, and the ways in which the socialist project revalorized the role of the collective touring experience. She also considers the ways in which travel created both national identities and cosmopolitan ones and discusses some of the implications of spatial and gender analysis for studies of travel, touring, and leisure away from home.
Travel to Work, Travel to Play: On Russian Tourism, Travel, and Leisure
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 62, Heft 4, S. 657-665
ISSN: 0037-6779