Summary: Question: What’s the best way to take a vacation in a Communist society? Answer: With utmost utilitarian seriousness, and possibly without your family. On this last week before Labor Day, guest host and <strong><em>Slate</em></strong> writer Leon Neyfakh talks to historian Diane Koenker about how the Soviet Union came to embrace personal holidays and reconcile them with the Communist doctrine. Koenker is the author of <a href="http://www.cornellpress.cornel"><em>Club Red: Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream.</em></a> <br>In the Spiel, the cautionary tale of Taylor Swift’s latest single.
