Format:
xvi, 216 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781032010595
,
9781032017594
Series Statement:
Routledge histories of Central and Eastern Europe
Content:
Introducing the History of Workers' Sport to Modernist and Avant-garde Studies -- The New Great Power. The First Workers' Olympics in Frankfurt am Main as a Socialist Olympia, 1925 -- The Giants at the Prater Stadium. Visualising the Second Workers' Olympics in the Socialist Paradise: the Red Vienna, 1931 -- 'Every Worker-Athlete Must be a Soldier of the Revolution'. From Vsevobuch to Gustav Klucis's Spartakiada series, 1928 -- The Communist Workers' Sport for the Revolution, for the Proletariat, for the People. Devětsil, FPT and the Visual Propaganda of the Second Spartakiad in Prague, 1928 -- The Collective Embodiment of the Red Man. Workers' Physical Training Association, Munka Circle and Worker Photography in Budapest -- 'Overcoming all Obstacles - Red Sport!' Visualising solidarity and hope for Communist Sport in Berlin, 1931-1932 -- Conclusion.
Content:
"This volume focuses on the modernist and avant-garde engagement with workers' sport events that were organised or were planned to be organised in the cities of Central Europe and the USSR in the period of 1920-1932: Frankfurt am Main - Vienna - Moscow - Prague - Budapest - Berlin. This volume is of great use to students and scholars of the history of sport, art history and cultural history in interwar Europe and the Soviet Union"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781003179894
Language:
English
Keywords:
Internationale Arbeiter-Olympiade
;
Mitteleuropa
;
Sowjetunion
;
Sport
;
Sportler
;
Kunst
;
Geschichte 1920-1932
Author information:
Strożek, Przemysław 1983-
