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Information presented to readers of guidebooks complies with certain educational, commercial and ideological guidelines. This fact can scarcely be noticed while analysing the materials created in the years of stability, but is clearly observed when studying the data recorded in the years of crucial political and governmental changes or revolutions. The article analyses the transformations taking place in the sphere of tourism in Russia after the Revolution (1917) that occurred due to the new State’s doctrines. Russian provincial guidebooks of the 1920s are the sources of the research. Published in the Russian province, the guidebooks provide evidence that lists of places of interest along with the ways the information about them is presented was reconsidered in the 1920s. The study of these transformations in attitude provides data for the analysis of the politics of memory during the first years of the Soviet State’s existence: the mechanisms, methods and techniques that served to erase significant objects of the past from people’s memory and to replace them with new ones. Key words: guidebooks, the politics of memory, the 1920s Russia, tourism.