Win or Else: Soviet Football in Moscow and Beyond, 1921-1985
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In Win or Else, Larry E. Holmes shows us how Soviet football culture regularly disregarded official ideological and political imperatives and skirted the boundaries between socialism and capitalism.
In the early 1920s, the Soviet press denounced football as a bourgeois sport that was injurious to both mind and body. Within that same decade, however, it blew up, becoming the most popular spectator sport in the USSR and growing into...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0253069637
ISBN13:9780253069634
Release Date:April 2024
Publisher:Indiana University Press
Length:230 Pages
Weight:0.76 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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