| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 396 pages) |
| Contents |
Long Boards in the Long Nineteenth Century -- The First World War to NEP -- Stalin and the Inter-War Years -- The Winter War and the Great Patriotic War,1939-1945 -- Post-War Soviet Sports and the Birth of Biathlon -- Skiing, Shooting and Politics, 1960 to 1962 -- The Triumph of Soviet Biathlon, 1963 to 1966 -- The Era of Aleksandr Tikhonov -- Minsk : Thirteenth Biathlon World Championships, 1974 -- The Fifteenth Winter Olympic Games : Calgary, Canada, 1988 |
| Summary |
This book offers an analysis of how the Soviet government interpreted the sport of skiing as a cultural, ideological, political, and social tool throughout the course of seven decades. In the beginning, the Soviet Union owned biathlon, and so the stories of both the state and the event are inseparable. Through the author's unique perspective on biathlon as a former nationally-ranked competitor and current professor of Soviet history, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Russian and Soviet history as well as to general readers with an interest in skiing and the development of twentieth-century sport |
| Analysis |
USSR ski team, Olympic skiing, Olympic biathlon, USSR biathlon |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-380) and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Skis and skiing -- Russia (Federation) -- History
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Biathlon -- Russia (Federation) -- History
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Sports and state -- Russia (Federation) -- History
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Sports and society -- Russia (Federation) -- History
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Sports -- Social aspects
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Biathlon
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Skis and skiing
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Sports and state
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Russia (Federation)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021693960 |
| ISBN |
9781609090937 |
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1609090934 |
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9781501756979 |
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1501756974 |
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