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The first western tourists in Moscow after WWII. PHOTO: GEORG ODDNER
Essays Tourist with a film camera Georg Oddner in the Soviet Union
This essay presents the little-known story of the first western package tour to the postwar Soviet Union along with neverbefore-seen photographs from the journey. It also introduces the digitized Oddner archive, which contains an abundance of visual sources on the Soviet Union of 1955.
Published in the printed edition of Baltic Worlds BW 2023:4, p 81-87
Published on balticworlds.com on December 11, 2023
abstract
This essay presents the little-known story of the first western package tour to the postwar Soviet Union along with neverbefore-seen photographs from the journey. It also introduces the digitized Oddner archive, which contains an abundance of visual sources on the Soviet Union of 1955.
KEYWORDS: Tourism, photography, cold war, Russia, Ukraine.
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