SPARTAKIAD : the politics and aesthetics of physical culture in communist.

Every five years from 1955 to 1985, mass Czechoslovak gymnastic demonstrations and sporting parades called Spartakiads were held to mark the 1945 liberation of Czechoslovakia. Involving hundreds of thousands of male and female performers of all ages and held in the world's largest stadium-a spa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: ROUBAL, PETR
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] KAROLINUM Press, 2018.
Colección:Edice Václava Havla Ser.
Temas:
Gymnastics > Czechoslovakia.
Gymnastique > Tchécoslovaquie.
Gymnastics
Czechoslovakia
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • A Genealogy of the Spartakiads
  • Ideology of the Organicism and Beginnings of the Mass Gymnastic Performances
  • A Physical Sonderweg and the Post-1848 Turner Movement
  • The Turners and the Third Reich
  • The Political Aesthetics of Tyrš's Project
  • Sokol Slets Prior to the First World War
  • Segregation as Emancipation
  • The Mystery of Democracy
  • Slets during the First Republic
  • Strahov Stadium
  • Transformations in Slet Symbolism
  • The Left and Mass Gymnastics
  • The Communist Party and Sokol after the Second World War: the Search for a Common Denominator
  • The All-Sokol Slet of 1948
  • "Can the People Betray?"
  • Symbolism of the First Spartakiad in 1955
  • Stalinism without Stalin
  • "Socialism Is a Child." School and Junior Days
  • A New Shift Begins
  • The Unbearable Heaviness of Folklore: Folk Dance and Spartakiads
  • Sokol Members from the Factories and Offices
  • Performances of the Armed Forces
  • Spartakiad Symbolism During the "Normalization" Era
  • Spartakiads with a Human Face
  • "Normalization" Spartakiads as an Image of Social Cohesion
  • Parents and Children Performing Exercises
  • An Amiable Background: Female Performances at Spartakiads during the "Normalization" Era
  • Junior Women and "Buds"
  • Soldiers and the Crisis of Masculinity
  • A Return to Sokol
  • The Organization of Spartakiads
  • Professional Discourse
  • The "Call to Arms" for the 1st All-State Spartakiad in 1955
  • A Return to a Tried-and-True Practice
  • Spartakiad Five-Year Plans
  • Physical and Ideological Training for the Spartakiad
  • Spartakiad Participants in Prague: Transportation, Accommodation and Food
  • The Disciplinary Space of Strahov Stadium
  • The Budget of Spartakiads in the Moral Economy of State Socialism
  • Society and Spartakiads
  • Open Resistance
  • Weapons of the Weak
  • Spartakiad Potlatch
  • An Enthusiastic Reception
  • Conclusion
  • Apendix
  • Bibliography
  • List of Illustrations
  • Index

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