Around the globe, sports have dominated the twenty-first century in many ways, and the seeds for this cultural sports takeover were sewn by the dawn of the Cold War. While historians and sports fans are familiar with the athletic realms in the US and probably some other nations as well, not many quite understand the twentieth-century origins of sports as a sociocultural phenomenon in Russia. Thankfully, Bryn Mawr provost Tim Harte—in his academic capacity as a professor of Russian in Comparative Literature—provides tremendous insight and analysis with the publication of his latest book, Faster, Higher, Stronger, Comrades! Sports, Art, and Ideology in Late Russian and Early Soviet Culture. Harte argues athletics (as an extension of culture, and “spirit”) and art symbiotically thrived as a dynamic part of contemporary life in both Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, giving readers understanding of fizkul'tura (symbolizing “physical fitness and collective goals above...
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April 01 2022
Faster, Higher, Stronger, Comrades! Sports, Art, and Ideology in Late Russian and Early Soviet Culture
Harte, Tim.
Faster, Higher, Stronger, Comrades! Sports, Art, and Ideology in Late Russian and Early Soviet Culture
. Madison
: University of Wisconsin Press
, 2020
. Pp. xv+297. Index and illustrations. $79.99, hb.Journal of Sport History (2022) 49 (1): 80–82.
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Samuel X. Fleischer; Faster, Higher, Stronger, Comrades! Sports, Art, and Ideology in Late Russian and Early Soviet Culture. Journal of Sport History 1 April 2022; 49 (1): 80–82. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/21558450.49.1.19
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