Sport and society in the Soviet Union : the politics of football after Stalin
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Bibliographic Information
Sport and society in the Soviet Union : the politics of football after Stalin
(The Library of modern Russia, [12])
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, c2018
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
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Note
"First published in Great Britan ... 2018. Paperback edition first published by Bloomsbury Academic 2020"--T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. [278]-295
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Following Stalin's death in 1953, association football clubs, as well as the informal supporter groups and communities which developed around them, were an important way for the diverse citizens of the multinational Soviet Union to express, negotiate and develop their identities, both on individual and collective levels. Manfred Zeller draws on extensive original research in Russian and Ukrainian archives, as well as interviews with spectators, 'hardcore ultras' and hooligans from the Caucasus to Central Asia, to shed new light onto this phenomenon covering the period from the height of Stalin's terror (the 1930s) to the Soviet Union's collapse (1991). Across events as diverse as the Soviet Union's footballing triumph over the German world champions in 1955 and the Luzhniki stadium disaster in 1982, Zeller explores the ways in which people, against the backdrop of totalitarianism, articulated feelings of alienation and fostered a sense of community through sport. In the process, he provides a unique 'bottom-up' reappraisal of Soviet history, culture and politics, as seen through the eyes of supporters and spectators.
This is an important contribution to research on Soviet culture after Stalin, the history of sport and contemporary debates on antagonism in the post-Soviet world.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Football fandom and Soviet History
2 Cops and Robbers: Spartak, Dinamo, and CDKA fan communities in Moscow, 1930s-1950s.
3 Beat these Monsters: Stadium violence, state authorities, and media, 1950s-1960s
4 Soviet Couch Potatoes: Football fans and the television, 1960s-1980s
5 Our own 'Internationale': Transnational patriotism around Dinamo Kiev, 1960s-1970s
6 Fan Movement: Organized fan culture and Soviet authority, 1970s-1980s
Conclusion: Football Fever, Authority, Society
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