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1. Physical Culture and Sport in Soviet Society

   Propaganda, Acculturation, and Transformation in the 1920s and 1930s

   By Susan Grant

   Series: Routledge Research in Sports History

   From its very inception the Soviet state valued the merits and benefits of physical culture, which included not only sport but also health, hygiene, education, labour and defence. Physical culture propaganda was directed at the Soviet population, and even more particularly at young people, women...

   Published August 9th 2012 by Routledge
2. Representing the Sporting Past in Museums and Halls of Fame

   Edited by Murray G. Phillips

   Series: Routledge Research in Sports History

   We live in a "museum age," and sport museums are part of this phenomenon. In this book, leading international sport history scholars examine sport museums including renowned institutions like the Olympic Museum in the Swiss city of Lausanne, the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum in Baltimore, the...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge