Abstract
Western and Soviet patterns of leisure are firmly linked to important institutions and values, mainly economic in the West and political in the USSR. In Soviet society, political manipulation of leisure resulted from centralized planning and administration designed to subordinate areas of social life to the tasks of building a strong state. Recently certain internal forces have encouraged a dismantling of previously well-entrenched institutions and values in the field of leisure. How an individual spends his leisure time is becoming less ruled by the official utilitarian-instrumental approach and more governed by the idea of leisure activities for their own sake. This has implications far beyond the sphere of leisure.
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