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All This Is Your World: Soviet Tourism at Home and Abroad After Stalin (review)

In the past decade, Soviet history has increasingly crossed paths with international history. Recent monographs by Michael David-Fox and Katerina Clark have drawn attention to international exchanges that lay within the foundation of Stalinism.1 This trend has been further bolstered by new research beyond the Stalin period. All This Is Your World: Soviet Tourism at Home and Abroad After Stalin, by Anne E. Gorsuch, adds to our understanding of the international context of Soviet cultural developments in the transition from late Stalinism to the Khrushchev era. During this period, Gorsuch argues, Soviet culture gradually opened up to the outside world and was integrated into the international circulation of people, ideas, and materials. All This Is Your World adds a transnational perspective to the development of Soviet culture by focusing on the experience of Soviet tourists to Eastern and Western Europe, building on the international approach to tourism in the Eastern Bloc featured in the 2006 volume Turizm: The Russian and East European Tourist Under Capitalism and Socialism, which Gorsuch coedited with Diane Koenker.2 The April 1955 Central Committee resolution allowing Soviet citizens to travel abroad as tourists constituted a radical reform of the Khrushchev era, and one that was never reversed. Gorsuch argues that the opening of the Soviet border to foreign travel reflected the emergence of a new relationship between the state and society. As she writes, “Soviet citizens were newly treated, if unevenly and within definite limits, as responsible and reliable, as individuals confident in their Soviet identity and trustworthy to send abroad” (P. 4). Why were Soviet tourists allowed to travel abroad in 1955? Following Stalin’s death in March 1953, the Soviet regime saw the international exchange of tourists as a tool for normalizing foreign relations. This was particularly true of tourism to capitalist countries, which served to support the doctrine of “peaceful coexistence,” as Gor-