Training socialist citizens : sports and the state in East Germany / by Molly Wilkinson Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Molly Wilkinson.

Series:

Studies in Central European Histories 44.

Studies in Central European historiess, 1547-1217 ; v. 44

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports and state--Germany (East).

Sports and state.

Sports--Germany (East).

Sports.

Socialism and sports--Germany (East).

Socialism and sports.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Offering a counterbalance to previous scholarship on elite Olympics sports and doping scandals, this study analyzes how the East German government used participatory sports programs, sports festivals, and sports spectatorship to transform its population into new socialist citizens. It illuminates the power of the East German dictatorship over its population, the ways that citizens participated in, accommodated to, and resisted state goals, and the government’s ultimate failure to create eager socialist citizens. It also highlights the orchestration of participation in modern dictatorships, the role of mass participatory sports as both a valuable political tool and a popular leisure activity, and elements of continuity and change in twentieth-century German history.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / M.W. Johnson

Introduction / M.W. Johnson

Chapter One. Between german tradition and soviet hegemony: The postwar reconstruction of sports / M.W. Johnson

Chapter Two. Training new socialist citizens through sports / M.W. Johnson

Chapter Three. Voluntary campaigns and socialist society / M.W. Johnson

Chapter Four. The embodiment of east german socialism: The gymnastics and sports festivals / M.W. Johnson

Chapter Five. Socialist spectatorship: The Friedensfahrt and champion Täve Schur / M.W. Johnson

Epilogue / M.W. Johnson

Bibliography / M.W. Johnson

Index / M.W. Johnson

Studies in central european histories / M.W. Johnson.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-225) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-39960-8

9786612399602

90-474-4340-3

OCLC:

567744199

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004169579.i-234 DOI