FOOTBALL IN THE LAND OF THE SOVIETS
by Carles Viñas
Description
Football took foot in Russia at the end of the 19 th Century, a country of Imperial decadence on the brink of a proletarian revolution. This fact influenced the course of History – and of course the history of football with it. This book explores how football came to Imperial Russia and evolved in the Soviet Union. In their beginnings in Tsarist Russia, football was considered an oddity, an entertainment reserved to local nobles and expatriates. It was after the October Revolution that football became a cultural phenomenon with strong working-class roots. Football was seen in a different light by those who had something to do with it: the courtiers of the Tsar were repulsed by what they considered to be a foreign sport and revolutionaries thought of it as a bourgeois amusement that diverted the attention of the toilers from more vital affairs. When did the situation change? Why those who reprobate the practice of the sport ended up instrumentalising it? How the Russian revolution changed football? Were the clubs political before the Bolsheviks? How a bourgeois sport came to be the favourite hobby of the Soviet working class?
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Author Biography
Carles Viñas (Barcelona) has a PhD in Contemporary History from the University of Barcelona (UB), where he teaches and is member of the research group Grup de Recerca I Anàlisi del Món Actual (GRANMA). He specializes in political extremism and political groups in sport organizations, and youth subcultures. Viñas also regularly contributes to several newspapers and has written Sankt Pauli. Un altre futbol és possible (Tigre de Paper, 2017), Una història de la ciutat a través del Barça (2012), Tolerància zero. La violència a l’esport (Angle, 2006), Skinheads a Catalunya (Columna, 2004).
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The main publishing house of critical thinking in Catalan language with almost ten years of experience. Specialized in fiction and non-fiction we also publish comics and children's books.
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- Publisher Tigre de Paper Edicions
- Publication Date 2019
- Orginal LanguageCatalan
- ISBN/Identifier 9788416855360
- FormatPaperback
- Pages168
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleFutbol al país dels soviets
- Edition2nd
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