Everyone to Skis!
Subtitle: Skiing in Russia and the Rise of Soviet Biathlon
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780875804767
Subjects: Skis and skiing; Biathlon; Sports and state; Sports, soviet union
Description: William D. Frank?s book is the first comprehensive analysis of how the Soviet government interpreted the sport of skiing as a cultural, ideological, political and social tool throughout the course of seven decades. In the beginning, the Soviet Union owned biathlon, and so the stories of both the state and the event are inseparable. Through the author?s unique perspective on biathlon as a former nationally-ranked competitor and current professor of Soviet history, Everyone to Skis! will appeal to students and scholars of Russian and Soviet history as well as to general readers with an interest in skiing and the development of twentieth-century sport.