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Faster, Higher, Stronger, Comrades! Sports, Art, and Ideology in Late Russian and Early Soviet Culture
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Faster, Higher, Stronger, Comrades! Sports, Art, and Ideology in Late Russian and Early Soviet Culture / Tim Harte.
ISBN
0299327736
9780299327736
0299327701
9780299327705
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1 online resource
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Project MUSE - 2020 Complete
Project MUSE - 2020 History
Project MUSE - 2020 Russian and East European Studies
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 11, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: The beauty and idealism of sports
The cult(ure) of the circus wrestler in pre-revolutionary Russia
Lyrical games: the poetics of Russia's modern sports movement
Revolutionary goals: modern sports in Russian and early Soviet avant-garde art
An eye for athletics: silent cinema and early Soviet sports
Framing the future: Soviet sports in early Soviet photomontage and photography
Higher and faster: art in the era of Stalinist sports
Conclusion and coda: "unearthly order and splendor."
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