Publication at Faculty of Social Sciences |
2010
Abstract
The increasing socialist states population mobility in East Europe was a significant feature of their societies especially from the early 1970's. Only 3 million Eastern block citizens had visited other socialist state in 1960, in 1988 90 million.
New spaces for satisfaction of their both material and immaterial needs opened up for the socialist states citizens that the respective state was incapable to keep effectively under control. But why the majority of the socialist states supported the mutual tourism? In order to reply this question, the study examines the role of travelling abroad in the view of the ruling regime, and also the ways the ruling regime faced the economic and ideological problems the tourism caused.