Football in the Land of the Soviets / Carles Viñas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Viñas, Carles, 1972- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soccer--Soviet Union--History.

Soccer.

Soccer--Russia--History.

Russia--History--Nicholas II, 1894-1917.

Russia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (113 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Pluto Press Inc., [2022]

Summary:

A popular history of the emergence of football in early twentieth century Russia.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Abbreviations

Foreword

Stands Turned into Historical Settings - Toni Padilla

Introduction

Part I Childhood - ДЕТСТВО

1 Football Comes to Tsarist Russia

2 The British Connection

3 St Petersburg - Russian Football Capital

4 Industrialisation, Workers, and the Rise of Muscovite Football

5 Morozovtsy - the First Great Team

Part II Boyhood - ОТРОЧЕСТВО

6 The Newly Created Russian Football Union and the Stockholm Games

7 The First National League Championship

8 'Wild Football' - Clandestinity, Sport, and Activism

9 The Impact of the 1914 Great War

Part III Youth - ЮНОСТЬ

10 Tumultuous Times and the 1917 Revolution

11 'White' Football - Conspiracy and Espionage

12 Civil War and Sport's Militarisation

13 The Third-International Team

14 Hygienists, Proletkultists, and the Concretisation of a Sports Model

15 Isolation and Diplomacy, a Team at the Country's Service

16 A Mass Sport in the USSR

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7453-4745-2

0-7453-4746-0