Serious Fun: A History of Spectator Sports in the USSR

by Robert Edelman

Book Overview

"The Big Red Machine," an assemblyline of sober, unsmiling Olympic champions--this was the image that dominated Western thinking about Soviet sports. But for Soviet citizens the experience of watching sports in the USSR was always very different. Soviet spectators paid comparatively little attention to most Olympic sports. They flocked instead to the games they really wanted to watch, rooted for teams and heroes of their own choosing, and carried...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195079485
• ISBN13: 9780195079487
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"