Everyone to Skis! : : Skiing in Russia and the Rise of Soviet Biathlon / / William D. Frank.
Nowhere in the world was the sport of biathlon, a combination of cross-country skiing and rifle marksmanship, taken more seriously than in the Soviet Union, and no other nation garnered greater success at international venues. From the introduction of modern biathlon in 1958 to the USSR's demis...
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Frank, William D., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Everyone to Skis! : Skiing in Russia and the Rise of Soviet Biathlon / William D. Frank. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2013] ©2013 1 online resource (424 p.) : 13 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- ONE-Long Boards in the Long Nineteenth Century -- TWO-The First World War to NEP -- THREE-Stalin and the Inter-War Years -- FOUR-The Winter War and the Great Patriotic War, 1939-1945 -- FIVE-Post-War Soviet Sports and the Birth of Biathlon -- SIX-Skiing, Shooting and Politics, 1960 to 1962 -- SEVEN-The Triumph of Soviet Biathlon, 1963 to 1966 -- EIGHT-The Era of Aleksandr Tikhonov -- NINE-Minsk: Thirteenth Biathlon World Championships, 197 4 -- TEN-The Fifteenth Winter Olympic Games: Calgary, Canada, 1988 -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Nowhere in the world was the sport of biathlon, a combination of cross-country skiing and rifle marksmanship, taken more seriously than in the Soviet Union, and no other nation garnered greater success at international venues. From the introduction of modern biathlon in 1958 to the USSR's demise in 1991, athletes representing the Soviet Union won almost half of all possible medals awarded in world championship and Olympic competition. Yet more than sheer technical skill created Soviet superiority in biathlon. The sport embodied the Soviet Union's culture, educational system and historical experience and provided the perfect ideological platform to promote the state's socialist viewpoint and military might, imbuing the sport with a Cold War sensibility that transcended the government's primary quest for post-war success at the Olympics.William D. Frank's book is the first comprehensive analysis of how the Soviet government interpreted the sport of skiing as a cultural, ideological, political and social tool throughout the course of seven decades. In the beginning, the Soviet Union owned biathlon, and so the stories of both the state and the event are inseparable. Through the author's unique perspective on biathlon as a former nationally-ranked competitor and current professor of Soviet history, Everyone to Skis! will appeal to students and scholars of Russian and Soviet history as well as to general readers with an interest in skiing and the development of twentieth-century sport. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jul 2024) History. Soviet & East European History. Sports & Games. SPORTS & RECREATION / Winter Sports. bisacsh USSR ski team, Olympic skiing, Olympic biathlon, USSR biathlon. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501756979 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501756979 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501756979/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- ONE-Long Boards in the Long Nineteenth Century -- TWO-The First World War to NEP -- THREE-Stalin and the Inter-War Years -- FOUR-The Winter War and the Great Patriotic War, 1939-1945 -- FIVE-Post-War Soviet Sports and the Birth of Biathlon -- SIX-Skiing, Shooting and Politics, 1960 to 1962 -- SEVEN-The Triumph of Soviet Biathlon, 1963 to 1966 -- EIGHT-The Era of Aleksandr Tikhonov -- NINE-Minsk: Thirteenth Biathlon World Championships, 197 4 -- TEN-The Fifteenth Winter Olympic Games: Calgary, Canada, 1988 -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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