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SPORT AND SOVIET SOCIETY
DEVELOPMENT OF SPORT AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN RUSSIA AND THE USSR |
| By: |
James Riordan |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521280230 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521280235 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
30 June, 1980 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies v. 22 |
| Pages: |
446 |
| Description: |
This book examines the evolution of sport in Russia from its association with health and hygiene to its post-war purpose of raising Soviet prestige abroad. |
| Synopsis: |
The role and development of sport in Soviet society received little contemporary attention, in the West or in Russia. Although it was widely banned after the Russian Revolution, and viewed as a tool developed by the bourgeoisie for the training of body and mind during the rise of capitalism, the USSR was among the world's sporting powers. This 1977 book examines the evolution of sport in Russia from its early association with health and hygiene, through a period of functional association with labour and defence, to its post-war importance as a means of enhancing the prestige of Soviet communism abroad. The historical role of Soviet sport is followed from the considerable part that sport played during the period of rapid industrialisation, through its strange fate during the years of mass repression, to its emergence as a major institution after the Second World War. |
| Illustrations: |
illustrations, bibliography, index |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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