What did the citizens of the Soviet Union identify with? Where did
the societal faultlines lie? Did mass demonstrations effectively
de-stabilize Soviet order? How did informal groups come into being
within a society based on uniformity? What impact did new media and
new forms of interconnectivity have on the development of a
multinational Soviet society? What remained after the end of the
Soviet Union? Using Soviet soccer teams from Moscow (Spartak,
Dynamo, ZSKA) and Kiev (Dynamo) as examples, Manfred Zeller tells a
story of community and enmity in the post-Stalinist multinational
empire. This brilliant monograph exposes the complex loyalties that
governed group identities and explains phenomena like the love-hate
relationship between Kiev and Moscow. 'Moscow against Kiev' in
Soviet times wasn't a question of war and peace, but in soccer it
was already a feeling of 'us against them' and a question of
victory or defeat in the complex multinational setting of the
region. Zeller's book is an important contribution to the research
of Soviet pop culture after Stalin as well as to contemporary
debates on antagonism in the post-Soviet world.
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