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Author Roubal, Petr, author.

Title Spartakiads : the politics of physical culture in Communist Czechoslovakia / Petr Roubal.

Publication Info. Czech Republic : Karolinum Press, [2019]
2019

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Description 1 online resource (425 pages).
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Vaclav Havel series
Vaclav Havel series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Every five years from 1955 to 1985, mass Czechoslovak gymnastic demonstrations and sporting parades called Spartakiads were held to mark the 1945 liberation of Czechoslovakia. Involving hundreds of thousands of male and female performers of all ages and held in the world's largest stadium-a space built expressly for this purpose-the synchronized and unified movements of the Czech citizenry embodied, quite literally, the idealized Socialist people: a powerful yet pliant force directed by the regime. This book explores the political, social, and aesthetic dimensions of these mass physical demonstrations, with a particular focus on their roots in the volkisch nationalism of the German Turner movement and the Czech Sokol gymnastic tradition. Featuring an abundance of photographs, Spartakiads takes a new approach to Communist history by opening a window onto the mentality and mundanity behind the Iron Curtain.
Language In Czech and English.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Gymnastics -- Czechoslovakia.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Roubal, Petr. Spartakiads : the politics of physical culture in Communist Czechoslovakia. [Place of publication not identified] : Karolinum Press, c2019 425 pages Vaclav Havel series. 9788024638515
ISBN 9788024638515
9788024643663 (e-book)

 
    
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