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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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (424 p.) :; 13 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- 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