Package Holidays of the Czechoslovak Citizens to Soviet Russia in the Interwar Period Seen from the Perspective of Archive Sources of the Russian Federation
Abstract
Based on the archival materials the paper analyses the phenomenon of journeys of Czechoslovak citizens to Soviet Russia in the interwar period. Soviet institutions which had the key influence on the selection of area which was to be experienced by visitors were The All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS) and state travel agency Inturist.
Activities of VOKS were focused particularly on members of social and culture elite and on developing of culture relations, whereas Inturist endeavoured to create sector of foreign mass tourism to USSR during 1930s. The paper analyses from the Czechoslovak point of view the probematic of controlled tourism in USSR and difficulties connected with its development in interwar period.