Football in the land of the Soviets /

"Mistrusted and derided, instrumentalised and adored - the story of football in Tsarist and early Soviet Russia is as wild and intriguing as that of the country itself. In many ways it is the same story… Football in the Land of the Soviets offers a fresh perspective on a momentous chapter in mo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Viñas, Carles, 1972- (Autor)
Otros Autores: Padilla, Toni, 1977- (writer of foreword.), Stobart, Luke (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Catalán
Publicado: London : Pluto Press, 2022.
Temas:
1894-1936
Soccer > Russia > History.
Soccer > Soviet Union > History.
Soccer
Russia > History > Nicholas II, 1894-1917.
Soviet Union > History > 1917-1936.
Russie > Histoire > 1894-1917 (Nicolas II)
URSS > Histoire > 1917-1936.
Russia
Soviet Union
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Football comes to tsarist Russia
  • The British connection
  • St. Petersburg - Russian football capital
  • Industrialism, workers, and the rise of Muscovite football
  • Morozovtsy - the first great team
  • The newly created Russian Football Union and the Stockholm games
  • The first National League championship
  • "Wild football" - clandestinity, sport, and activism
  • The impact of the 1914 Great War
  • Tumultuous times and the 1917 revolution
  • "White" football - conspiracy and espionage
  • Civil war and sport's militarisation
  • The third-international team
  • Hygienists, proletkultists, and the concretisation of a sports model
  • Isolation and diplomacy, a team at the country's service
  • A mass sport in the USSR.

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