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Football in the Land of the Soviets (Paperback) Loot Price: R377
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Football in the Land of the Soviets (Paperback): Carles Vinas

Football in the Land of the Soviets (Paperback)

Carles Vinas; Translated by Luke Stobart

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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 modern political history. Carles Vinas shows how the Russian game was transformed in just a few decades: from a minor emigre pastime, to a modernising driver of society, to a vanguard for Soviet diplomacy and internationalism, and finally, with the first championship of the Soviet League in 1936, into a truly mass phenomenon. So exactly how did a bourgeois game end up as the collective passion of the Soviet working class? And why does it matter? Football in the Land of the Soviets brings these questions to the fore in this thrilling, unorthodox account of the fall of an imperial dynasty and the rise of the world's first socialist state.

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Imprint: Pluto Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: September 2022
First published: 2022
Authors: Carles Vinas
Translators: Luke Stobart
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-4744-8
Languages: English
Subtitles: Catalan
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Marxism & Communism
Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Ball games > Football (Soccer, Association football) > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN: 0-7453-4744-4
Barcode: 9780745347448

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