UID:
almafu_9960117480202883
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 362 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-139-99064-0
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1-316-01124-0
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1-139-98602-3
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1-316-01348-0
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1-316-00224-1
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1-107-28031-1
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1-316-00674-3
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1-316-00448-1
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1-316-00898-3
Content:
Sport in East Germany is commonly associated with the systematic doping that helped to make the country an Olympic superpower. Football played little part in this controversial story. Yet, as a hugely popular activity that was deeply entwined in the social fabric, it exerted an influence that few institutions or pursuits could match. The People's Game examines the history of football from the interrelated perspectives of star players, fans, and ordinary citizens who played for fun. Using archival sources and interviews, it reveals football's fluid role in preserving and challenging communist hegemony. By repeatedly emphasising that GDR football was part of an international story, for example, through analysis of the 1974 World Cup finals, Alan McDougall shows how sport transcended the Iron Curtain. Through a study of the mass protests against the Stasi team, BFC, during the 1980s, he reveals football's role in foreshadowing the downfall of communism.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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""Cover""; ""Half-title""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright information ""; ""Table of contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""A football map of the GDR""; ""List of abbreviations""; ""Acknowledgements ""; ""1 Introduction""; ""Past and present in East German football ""; ""Revising a history of failure? ""; ""GDR football in historiographical context ""
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""German football before 1945: a brief history """"Football in East Germany before 1945 ""; ""How football was (dis-)organised in the GDR ""; ""Sources, structures, and arguments ""; ""2 Football reconstructed ""; ""Football at 'zero hour'""; ""Early football competitions ""; ""Football of the new type? ""
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""Planitz versus the plan """"Sealing footballs division ""; ""Between the lines: reflections on football in the SBZ ""; ""Part I Players ""; ""Made in East Germany: football as Leistungssport ""; ""3 Footballers lives ""; ""Gilded elite? Playing football under communism ""
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""Us against us? The 'Sparwasser goal'""""Decline in the individualist age? The national team in the 1980s ""; ""Unqualified failure? Conclusions on the Auswahl ""; ""5 Club football at home and away ""; ""Thinking local, acting local ""; ""Delegating power: transfers and local politics ""
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""A case study in Resistenz: Chemie Leipzig ""
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-64971-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-05203-3
Language:
English
URL:
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107280311
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