Serious fun : a history of spectator sports in the USSR / Robert Edelman
1993, 1st edition. New York : Oxford University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #426066
ISBN: 0195079485
Physical description; xvi, 286 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-276) and index. Contents; 1. Socialism and Spectator Sports -- 2. The Search for a Mode -- 3. The Emergence of Modern Spectator Sports -- 4. Internationalism and High Stalinism -- 5. Professionals and Amateurs -- International Competition -- 6. Entertainment in the Age of Soviet Normalcy -- 7. Perestroika and Professionalism (1985-1991) -- 8. Bread or Circuses? Choose One!. Subjects; Sports Soviet Union History. Sports and state Soviet Union. Sport. Soviet Union.
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