Sport in Soviet Society: Development of Sport and Physical Education in Russia and the USSR (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Sport in Soviet Society: Development of Sport and Physical Education in Russia and the USSR (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies) Book

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.Read More

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    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.

  • 0521212847
  • 9780521212847
  • James Riordan
  • 19 May 1977
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 432
  • 1st Edition.
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