Sport in Soviet Society - Development of Sport and Physical Education in Russia and the USSR

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The beginnings of an organised sports movement, 1861-1917; 2. The ideological roots of Soviet physical education and sport; 3. Militarisation of sport, 1917-1920; 4. Years of physical culture. 1921-1929; 5. Industrialisation and competitive sport, 1929-1941; 6. World War II, 1941-1945: the supreme test of physical training; 7. Restoration and consolidation, 1945-1958: aiming for world supremacy in sport; 8. The later post-war years: urban life and leisure; 9. Contemporary organisation of Soviet sport and physical education; 10. Social aspects of sport: the military, peasants, nationalities, women and schoolchildren; 11. Soviet sport and Soviet foreign policy; Conclusions; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: J. Riordan, James Riordan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2010
• EAN: 9780521280235
• ISBN: 978-0-521-28023-5
• No. of pages: 446
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 625 g
• Series: Cambridge Russian, Soviet and; Cambridge Russian, Soviet and
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)