O ne/cestování za socialismu
About (not) travelling during the socialist era

Summary/Abstract: In his monograph titled "Have a good journey..?! Transformation of travelling and tourism policies in Czechoslovakia during the Cold War (1945–1989)" (Pelhřimov: Nová tiskárna Pelhřimov, 2017) on metamorphoses of travelling in Czechoslovakia since the end of WWII until the fall of the Communist regime, Pavel Mücke is looking for an answer to the question about the place occupied by this phenomenon in minds and attitudes of Czechoslovak political, party and economic elites in those days. In the reviewer’s opinion, the monograph is based on a thorough exploitation of available archival sources and takes the existing state of knowledge to a substantially more comprehensive level. The reviewer presents some of the author’s findings, e.g. on the development of outbound and incoming tourism with socialist and capitalist countries, operation of hotels, Czechoslovakia’s participation in world exhibitions (expos), or on recreation of Communist functionaries, concluding that the monograph’s concept and style may be attractive for a broader audience.

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