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Football in the Land of the Soviets (Paperback)
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Football in the Land of the Soviets (Paperback)
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Loot Price R377
Discovery Miles 3 770
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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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