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This is a lively and engaging study that explores the impact ofsports on the cultural world of both pre- and postrevolutionary Russia. The numerous analyses of works from the worlds of literature, film, cinema, and photographyare both fresh and insightful. - Barry Scherr, Dartmouth College An exciting, thoughtful volume, with a wide-ranging purview, impressively thorough research, original perspective, eloquently bold collocation of pertinent texts, and many fascinating apercus. This eminently readable study is a must for Slavists and lovers of sport. - Helena Goscilo, The Ohio State University

An exciting, thoughtful volume, with a wide-ranging purview, impressively thorough research, original perspective, eloquently bold collocation of pertinent texts, and many fascinating apercus. This eminently readable study is a must for Slavists and lovers of sport. Helena Goscilo, The Ohio State University This is a lively and engaging study that explores the impact ofsports on the cultural world of both pre- and postrevolutionary Russia. The numerous analyses of works from the worlds of literature, film, cinema, and photographyare both fresh and insightful. --Barry Scherr, Dartmouth College

"This is a lively and engaging study that explores the impact ofsports on the cultural world of both pre- and postrevolutionary Russia. The numerous analyses of works from the worlds of literature, film, cinema, and photographyare both fresh and insightful."" - Barry Scherr, Dartmouth College ""An exciting, thoughtful volume, with a wide-ranging purview, impressively thorough research, original perspective, eloquently bold collocation of pertinent texts, and many fascinating aperçus. This eminently readable study is a must for Slavists and lovers of sport."" - Helena Goscilo, The Ohio State University"

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Timothy Harte is a professor of Russian at Bryn Mawr College. He is the author of Fast Forward: The Aesthetics and Ideology of Speed in Russian Avant-Garde Culture, 1910–1930 and the coeditor of Women in Soviet Film: The Thaw and Post-Thaw Periods.

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