Sport And Society In The Soviet Union

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0521212847

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Author : Susan Grant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415806954

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Physical Culture and Sport in Soviet Society by Susan Grant Pdf

From its very inception the Soviet state valued the merits and benefits of physical culture, which included not only sport but also health, hygiene, education, labour and defence. Physical culture propaganda was directed at the Soviet population, and even more particularly at young people, women and peasants, with the aim of transforming them into ideal citizens. By using physical culture and sport to assess social, cultural and political developments within the Soviet Union, this book provides a new addition to the historiography of the 1920s and 1930s as well as to general sports history studies.

Author : Nikolaus Katzer,Sandra Budy,Alexandra Köhring,Manfred Zeller
Publisher : Campus Verlag
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9783593392905

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Euphoria and Exhaustion by Nikolaus Katzer,Sandra Budy,Alexandra Köhring,Manfred Zeller Pdf

The architects of the Soviet Union intended not merely to remake their society—they also had an ambitious plan to remake the citizenry physically, with the goal of perfecting the socialist ideal of man. As Euphoria and Exhaustion shows, the Soviet leadership used sport as one of the primary arenas in which to deploy and test their efforts to mechanize and perfect the human body, drawing on knowledge from physiology, biology, medicine, and hygiene. At the same time, however, such efforts, like any form of social control, could easily lead to discontent—and thus, the editors show, a study of changes in public attitude towards sport can offer insight into overall levels of integration, dissatisfaction, and social exhaustion in the Soviet Union.

Author : Mike O'Mahony
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 1861892675

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Sport in the USSR by Mike O'Mahony Pdf

"Sport played a vital role within the social and cultural life of the Soviet Union. The Soviet State sponsored countless programmes to promote sporting activities, and even constructed a new term, fizkultura, to describe sports culture. In Sport in the USSR, Mike O'Mahony asserts that the popular image of fizkultura was as dependent on presentation as it was on actual practice. Images of vigorous Soviet sportsmen and women were evoked in literature, film and popular songs, and adorned stamps and domestic objects, as well as badges and medals. Some major artists even forged their entire careers from representations of sport." "Sport in the USSR explores physical and visual culture from the early years of the Soviet Union to its collapse. It is a fascinating addition to the current debates in the fields of sociology, visual culture and Soviet history."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Manfred Zeller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781786725318

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Sport and Society in the Soviet Union by Manfred Zeller Pdf

Following Stalin's death in 1953, association football clubs, as well as the informal supporter groups and communities which developed around them, were an important way for the diverse citizens of the multinational Soviet Union to express, negotiate and develop their identities, both on individual and collective levels. Manfred Zeller draws on extensive original research in Russian and Ukrainian archives, as well as interviews with spectators, 'hardcore ultras' and hooligans from the Caucasus to Central Asia, to shed new light onto this phenomenon covering the period from the height of Stalin's terror (the 1930s) to the Soviet Union's collapse (1991). Across events as diverse as the Soviet Union's footballing triumph over the German world champions in 1955 and the Luzhniki stadium disaster in 1982, Zeller explores the ways in which people, against the backdrop of totalitarianism, articulated feelings of alienation and fostered a sense of community through sport. In the process, he provides a unique 'bottom-up' reappraisal of Soviet history, culture and politics, as seen through the eyes of supporters and spectators. This is an important contribution to research on Soviet culture after Stalin, the history of sport and contemporary debates on antagonism in the post-Soviet world.

Author : James Riordan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1980-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521280230

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Sport in Soviet Society by James Riordan Pdf

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.

Author : James Riordan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:868732205

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Sport in Soviet Society by James Riordan Pdf

Author : Stephen Wagg,David L. Andrews
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415359269

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East Plays West by Stephen Wagg,David L. Andrews Pdf

This is a collection of essays on the symbolic role of sport in the delicate interplay of the superpowers during the Cold War, showing how sport and politics became inextricably intertwined.

Author : Jenifer Parks
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498541190

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The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, and the Cold War by Jenifer Parks Pdf

Using previously inaccessible archival documents, this study provides a longitudinal investigation of the middle levels of Soviet bureaucracy responsible for overseeing Olympic Sport during the Cold War. Spanning the period from the USSR’s Olympic debut in 1952 through the 1980 Games held in Moscow, this book argues that behind the high-profile performances of Soviet elite athletes, a legion of sports administrators worked within international sports organizations and the Soviet party-state to increase Soviet chances of success and make Soviet representatives a respected voice in international sports. Soviet officials helped expand the Olympic movement, increasing the participation of women, developing nations, and socialist bloc countries, while achieving Soviet political and diplomatic aims. Soviet representatives, over the course of only a few decades, became a dominant and respected voice within international sports circles, actively promoting Olympic ideals abroad even as they transformed those ideals to better align with Soviet goals. In the process, Soviet sports contributed to the evolution of Olympic sport, integrating the Soviet Union into an emerging global culture, and contributing to transformations within the Soviet Union. Back home in the USSR, the Sports Committee's leading personalities represented a new kind of Soviet bureaucrat, who emerged in the late years of Stalinism and contributed to the professionalization of party-state apparatus. Standing at the intersection between state and society, between Soviet political goals and their execution, and between Olympic sport and Communist ideology, mid-level Soviet sports administrators demonstrated ideological drive, political savvy, and professional pragmatism, providing the impetus, expertise, and experience to transform broad ideological constructs into specific policies and procedures in the Soviet Union and realize Soviet propaganda and foreign policy goals in international and Olympic sports.

Author : John Frederick Baddeley
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1022850954

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Russia in the 'eighties, ' by John Frederick Baddeley Pdf

Delve into the intersection of sports and politics in the Soviet Union during the 1980s with this insightful historical analysis. Author John Frederick Baddeley traces the complex relationship between the government and the athletic system, shedding light on the role of sports in shaping Soviet society at the time. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Henry W. Morton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Sports
ISBN : STANFORD:36105082591194

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Soviet Sport, Mirror of Soviet Society by Henry W. Morton Pdf

Author : James Riordan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Physical education and training
ISBN : OCLC:2801447

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Sport and Physical Education in the Soviet Union by James Riordan Pdf

Author : Kevin B. Witherspoon
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781610756525

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Defending the American Way of Life by Kevin B. Witherspoon Pdf

The Cold War was fought in every corner of society, including in the sport and entertainment industries. Recognizing the importance of culture in the battle for hearts and minds, the United States, like the Soviet Union, attempted to win the favor of citizens in nonaligned states through the soft power of sport. Athletes became de facto ambassadors of US interests, their wins and losses serving as emblems of broader efforts to shield American culture—both at home and abroad—against communism. In Defending the American Way of Life, leading sport historians present new perspectives on high-profile issues in this era of sport history alongside research drawn from previously untapped archival sources to highlight the ways that sports influenced and were influenced by Cold War politics. Surveying the significance of sports in Cold War America through lenses of race, gender, diplomacy, cultural infiltration, anti-communist hysteria, doping, state intervention, and more, this collection illustrates how this conflict remains relevant to US sporting institutions, organizations, and ideologies today.

Author : Robert Edelman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : UOM:39015029733220

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Serious Fun by Robert Edelman Pdf

"The Big Red Machine," an assemblyline of sober, unsmiling Olympic champions--this was the image that dominated Western thinking about Soviet sports. But for Soviet citizens the experience of watching sports in the USSR was always very different. Soviet spectators paid comparatively little attention to most Olympic sports. They flocked instead to the games they really wanted to watch, rooted for teams and heroes of their own choosing, and carried on with a rowdiness typical of sportsfans everywhere. The Communist state sought to use sports and other forms of mass culture to instill values of discipline, order, health, and culture. The fans, however, just wanted to have fun. Official Soviet ideology was never able to control or comprehend the regressed and pleasure-seeking component not only of spectator sport but of all popular culture. In Serious Fun, Robert Edelman provides the first history of any aspect of Soviet sports, covering the most popular spectator attractions from 1917 up to the end of the Soviet Union in 1991. Edelman has used the highly candid sports press, memoirs, instruction books, team yearbooks, and press guides and supplmented them with Soviet television broadcasts and interviews with players, coaches, team officials, television bureaucrats, journalists, and fans to detail how spectator sport withstood the power of the state and became a sphere of life that allowed citizens to resist, deflect, and even modify the actions of the authorities. Focusing on the most popular sports of soccer, hockey, and basketball, Edelman discusses the dominant teams and the biggest stars: the international competitive successes as well as the many failures. He covers a variety of topics familiar to Western sports fans including professionalism, fan violence, corruption, political meddling, the sports press, television, and the effect of big money on competition. More than just a sports book, Serious Fun takes us deep into the social fabric of Soviet life. Edelman shows how the Big Red machine so visible in international competition was much like the giant steel mills and dams of which the Soviets boasted. These were the achievements of a state that put production above all else, but spectator sport was part of a long-suffering consumer sector that the industrial giant would never satisfy. This volume will bring a broader, richer understanding of Soviet life not only to students of popular culture and Russian history but to sports fans everywhere.

Author : Victor E. Louis,Jennifer M. Louis
Publisher : Pergamon
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Sports
ISBN : 0080245072

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Sport in the Soviet Union by Victor E. Louis,Jennifer M. Louis Pdf

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