Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Translation
Introduction: The Beauty and Idealism of Sports
1. Herculean Heights: The Cult(ure) of the Circus Wrestler in Prerevolutionary Russia
2. Lyrical Games: The Poetics of Russia’s Modern Sports Movement
3. Revolutionary Goals: Modern Sports in Russian and Early Soviet Avant-Garde Art
4. An Eye for Athletics: Silent Cinema and Early Soviet Sports
5. Framing the Future: Sports in Early Soviet Photomontage and Photography
6. Higher and Faster: Art in the Era of Stalinist Sports
Conclusion: This New Sporting Life
Coda: “Unearthly Order and Splendor”
Notes
Bibliography
Index