Training Socialist Citizens

Sports and the State in East Germany

AvMolly W. Johnson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

Del 44 i serien Studies in Central European Histories

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Offering a counterbalance to previous scholarship on elite Olympics 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 eager 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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2008-08-29
Mått:160 x 240 x 18 mm
Vikt:570 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Central European Histories
Antal sidor:234
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004169579

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Molly Wilkinson Johnson earned a Ph.D. in Modern European History from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 2003. She is an assistant professor of history at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

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"...eine stringente, kreative und sprachlich klar präsentierte Studie..."H-Soz-u-Kult, Uta Andrea Balbier, German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.'Molly Wilkinson Johnson has produced a welcome addition to a growing area of scholarship, the history of sport, which itself must be seen in the broader context of a burgeoning literature on the academic study of sport. [...] this book certainly makes a solid contribution to this area of research [...] and it will be of interest to anyone working in the history of sport and the study of state citizen relationships in dictatorship more broadly.Jonathan Crix, Slavic Review, vol. 69, no. 1 (Spring 2010)

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AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Between German Tradition and Soviet Hegemony: The Postwar Reconstruction of Sports2. Training New Socialist Citizens through Sports3. Voluntary Campaigns and Socialist Society4. The Embodiment of East German Socialism: The Gymnastics and Sports Festivals5. Socialist Spectatorship: The Friedensfahrt and Champion Täve SchurEpilogueBibliographyIndex