Spartak Moscow: A History of the People’s Team in the Workers’ State (a Review)

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    Spartak Moscow: A History of the People's Team in the Workers' State
    By Robert Edelman. Published in 2009 by Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY. (368 pp., $35).

    Professor Robert Edelman's Spartak Moscow: A History of the People's Team in the Workers' State, represents a unique contribution to the field of sport history and the modern history of the Soviet Union. Edelman, a scholar of Russian History at the University of California, San Diego, became interested in studying sport after completing a portion of his graduate studies in the Soviet Union.
    Participating as a spectator in Russian sport events, primarily soccer matches, proved to be a constructive escape from the Stressors of daily life for Edelman. This entertaining text is the result of Edelman's fascination with two premier soccer clubs in Moscow: Spartak and their arch rival. Dinamo. As the story unfolds, the reader is treated to a classic tale of good versus evil—the administrators and players of Spartak are portrayed as heroes, while Dinamo and an assortment of communist officials are spun as villains.
    Idioma originalAmerican English
    Páginas (desde-hasta)86-87
    Número de páginas2
    PublicaciónJournal of Sport Management
    Volumen25
    N.º1
    DOI
    EstadoPublished - 2011

    Disciplines

    • Psychology
    • Public Relations and Advertising
    • Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
    • Gerontology

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