Training socialist citizens
sports and the state in East Germany
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Word Count
58,000 words, Guess
Page Count
232 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL16871673M
- ISBN-139789004169579
- OCLC Control Number228370011
- Library of Congress Control Number2008021219
Classifications
- DDC796.09431
- LCCGV612.6 .J64 2008
- LCCGV612.6.J64 2008
Description
"Offering a counterbalance to previous scholarship on elite Olympic sports and doping scandals, this study analyzes how the East German government used participatory sports programs, sports festivals, and sports spectatorship to transform its population into new socialist citizens. It illuminates the power of the East German dictatorship over its population, the ways that citizens participated in, accommodated to, and resisted state goals, and the government's ultimate failure to create socialist citizens. It also highlights the orchestration of participation in modern dictatorships, the role of mass participatory sports as both a valuable political tool and a popular leisure activity, and elements of continuity and change in twentieth-century German history."--BOOK JACKET.
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Series Statement
- Studies in Central European historiess -- v. 44
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- Training socialist citizens: sports and the state in East Germany
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