Training Socialist Citizens
Sports and the State in East Germany
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2008
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-16957-9 (ISBN)
Brill (Verlag)
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Drawing on archival, published, and oral history sources, this book analyzes the successes and limitations encountered by the East German state as it used participatory sports programs, sports festivals, and sports spectatorship to transform its population into new socialist citizens.
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.
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.
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.
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Between German Tradition and Soviet Hegemony: The Postwar Reconstruction of Sports
2. Training New Socialist Citizens through Sports
3. Voluntary Campaigns and Socialist Society
4. The Embodiment of East German Socialism: The Gymnastics and Sports Festivals
5. Socialist Spectatorship: The Friedensfahrt and Champion Täve Schur
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 29.8.2008 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Central European Histories ; 44 |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 240 mm |
| Gewicht | 570 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-16957-1 / 9004169571 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-16957-9 / 9789004169579 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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