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Foreign Visitors and the Post-Stalin Soviet State University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations 2016 Porous Empire: Foreign Visitors And The oP st- Stalin Soviet State Alex Hazanov Hazanov University of Pennsylvania, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations Part of the History Commons Recommended Citation Hazanov, Alex Hazanov, "Porous Empire: Foreign Visitors And The osP t-Stalin Soviet State" (2016). Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations. 2330. https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/2330 This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/2330 For more information, please contact [email protected]. Porous Empire: Foreign Visitors And The oP st-Stalin Soviet State Abstract “Porous Empire” is a study of the relationship between Soviet institutions, Soviet society and the millions of foreigners who visited the USSR between the mid-1950s and the mid-1980s. “Porous Empire” traces how Soviet economic, propaganda, and state security institutions, all shaped during the isolationist Stalin period, struggled to accommodate their practices to millions of visitors with material expectations and assumed legal rights radically unlike those of Soviet citizens. While much recent Soviet historiography focuses on the ways in which the post-Stalin opening to the outside world led to the erosion of official Soviet ideology, I argue that ideological attitudes inherited from the Stalin era structured institutional responses to a growing foreign presence in Soviet life. Therefore, while Soviet institutions had to accommodate their economic practices to the growing numbers of tourists and other visitors inside the Soviet borders and were forced to concede the existence of contact zones between foreigners and Soviet citizens that loosened some of the absolute sovereignty claims of the Soviet party-statem, they remained loyal to visions of Soviet economic independence, committed to fighting the cultural Cold War, and profoundly suspicious of the outside world. The ag p between Soviet concessions to the era of international mobility and Soviet attitudes to the outside world shaped the peculiar nature of globalization in its Soviet context: even as the Soviet opening up to the world promoted Westernization and undermined some of the ideological foundations of Soviet power, it also generated, within the bowels of Soviet institutions, a profound and honestly-held commitment to authoritarianism and social discipline as an instrument of geopolitical resistance, a mental attitude that still shapes Russian official approaches to the outside world 25 years after the fall of the USSR. Degree Type Dissertation Degree Name Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Graduate Group History First Advisor Benjamin Nathans Keywords Cold War, Communism, Globalization, Russia, Soviet Union, Tourism Subject Categories History This dissertation is available at ScholarlyCommons: https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/2330 POROUS EMPIRE: FOREIGN VISITORS AND THE POST-STALIN SOVIET STATE Alexander Hazanov A DISSERTATION In HISTORY Presented to the Faculties of the University of Pennylvania In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy 2016 Supervisor of Dissertation: Benjamin Nathans, Ronald S. Lauder Endowed Term Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania Graduate Group Chair: Peter Holquist, Associate Professor of History Dissertation Committee: Peter Holquist, Associate Professor of History Kevin M.F Platt, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures ii Dedication For Emma iii Acknowledgments If there is anything that this dissertation taught me, it is that travel is always a collective endeavor. And this journey was no exception. I would like to thank the members of my dissertation committee, Ben Nathans, Peter Holquist and Kevin Platt. Ben has been a model advisor, restraining my flights of fantasy, fighting a valiant battle to keep my writing clear and concise, and providing both academic advice and moral support in difficult moments. Peter Holquist offered unfailing encouragement, always pushing me to think bigger. Kevin Platt helped me to push the boundaries of my thinking beyond my comfort zone - and keep it clear as I was doing so. I also thank Thomas Childers, Vanessa Ogle, Antonio Ferros, and especially Kathy Brown for being wonderful teachers and colleagues. Through the years, I have presented bits and pieces of this dissertation in various fora and benefitted from the wisdom of everyone who ever commented on them. I would like to thank Anna Krylova, Anatoly Pinsky, Jim Heinzen, Sam Hirst, Artemy Kalinovsky, Joanna Bockman, Oscar Sanchez-Siboni and Robert Weinberg for their invaluable criticisms and suggestions. I would also like to thank the participants and organizers of the 2012 Hoover Institute Summer Workshop - especially Amir Weiner, Paul R. Gregory, David Satter, John Barber and Julia Stittman - for listening to my ideas when they were not even one-fifth baked. Many people and institutions offered me their generosity and hospitality over the years. This dissertation would not have been possible without the generous financial support from the George Mosse Exchange Fellowship, the Ben Franklin Graduate Fellowship at Penn, and the SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowship. I am especially grateful for the Bradley Foundation and Professors Alan Kors and Walter McDougall for providing me with funds that allowed me to complete the research and writing of this dissertation. In Moscow, I enjoyed the hospitality of Ekaterina Pavlova and Igor Aleksandrov, and the generous support of many archivists and librarians. I would like to thank Galina Mikhailovna Tokareva from the Russian State Archives of Sociopolitical History Komsomol Reading Room for helping me, and so many other scholars, to better perceive the Soviet experience. Thanking the many friends who helped me along the way is the most pleasant of duties. At Penn, Lori Daggar, Noria Litaker, James Hoyt, Elizabeth Della Zazzera, Rachel Guberman, Noor Zaidi, Jim Ryan, Tom Coldwell, Hope McGrath, Chris Muenzen, Emily Merrill, Matthew Kruer, and many, many others who offered their unflagging friendship. My fellow Russianists, Sam Casper, Claire Kaiser, and Jacob Feygin were wonderful iv friends and colleagues. Sam offered endless good cheer, some very good documents, and encyclopedic knowledge of everything under the sun. Claire provided me with sound advice - and helped arrange wonderf two weeks in Tbilisi when I needed a break. Jacob was a generous friend, and a wonderful sounding board, and this dissertation would have been immeasurably poorer without our running dialogue. In Moscow, I enjoyed the company of many wonderful researchers. I would like to thank Tom Hooker, Tim Noonan, Mike Loader, Kristy Ironside, Stephen Riegg, Alan Roe, Batsheba Demuth and Eric Radisch for keeping me company in the archives and in the afterhours. I am deeply grateful for Orysia Kulick and Beth Kerley for generously providing me with documents from Ukraine which proved of immense benefit for this dissertation. At Wisconsin, Roberto Carmack, Maya Holzman, Sean Gillen, Patrick Michelson, and many other members of the wonderful history community there provided me with intellectual sustenance, good beer, and an introduction to American culture. My fellow Mosse fellows, Noa Kaspin and Lior Libman helped absorb the culture shock - and introduced me to a very special person. Sara Brinegar was and remains one of the smartest people I know – and a terrific friend. David McDonald and Francine Hirsch introduced me to the study of Russian history, and Jeremi Suri pushed me to think about the Soviet Union in the context of global history. I also thank John Tortorice for his kindness and support. In Jerusalem, Diego Olstein, Dan Diner, and Alon Confino taught me how to think like a historian, and Asya Bereznyak, Adam Farkash, Anna Gutgarts, Liraz Laor, Anat Ravid, and Sasha Gutkin were very good friends. Back in Tel Aviv, Nimrod Oren, Eyal Gluck, and Dana Pomernik helped me to figure out what is it I wanted to do “after the army.” Roee Ben Yishai and Sonya Stutman were there with me every step of the way. Finally, and most importantly, I would like to thank my family. My Russian uncles and cousins, the Gerlovins, Lebedevs and Basenkos, provided me with much needed hospitality in St. Petersburg. Paul and Alice Kosowsky have graciously accepted me into their family. My siblings Eli and Dina, and their spouses, Adi and Roee, provided me with support, good cheer and perspective even across a couple of oceans. My parents, Mina and Hayim Hazanov, were generous, supportive, and kind beyond measure. The late, great Tuesday and Clio didn’t care one bit about this dissertation –and my life is so much richer for that. Finally, this dissertation, and so much else besides, would not have been possible without my wife, Emma Hazanov. She is my best friend, harshest critic, most loving spouse, the recipient of many bad jokes, a resolute enemy of convoluted writing, and proof-reader extraordinaire. I was only able to begin, let alone finish, this project due to her endless generosity, love, and sacrifice. This dissertation is dedicated to her, with all my love. v Abstract POROUS EMPIRE: FOREIGN VISITORS AND THE POST-STALIN SOVIET STATE Alexander Hazanov Benjamin Nathans “Porous Empire” is a study of the relationship between Soviet institutions,
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