Win or Else: Soviet Football in Moscow and Beyond, 1921-1985

by Larry E. Holmes

In Win or Else, Larry E. Holmes shows us how Soviet football culture regularly disregarded official ideological and political imperatives and skirted the boundaries between socialism and capitalism.

In the early 1920s, the Soviet press denounced football as a bourgeois sport that was injurious to both mind and body. Within that same decade, however, it blew up, becoming the most popular spectator sport in the USSR and growing into...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253069629
• ISBN13: 9780253069627
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"