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Training Socialist Citizens: Sports and the State in East Germany (Studies in Central European Histories, 44)

Molly Wilkinson Johnson

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Description: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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Training Socialist Citizens: Sports and the State in East Germany (Studies in Central European Histories, 44). To get started finding Training Socialist Citizens: Sports and the State in East Germany (Studies in Central European Histories, 44), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Training Socialist Citizens: Sports and the State in East Germany (Studies in Central European Histories, 44). To get started finding Training Socialist Citizens: Sports and the State in East Germany (Studies in Central European Histories, 44), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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