Robert Edelman: "Serious Fun: A History of Spectator Sports in the USSR"
Oxford University Press, USA | ISBN: 0195079485 | 1993 | PDF | 320 Pages | 4,5 MB
"The Big Red Machine," an assemblyline of sober, unsmiling Olympic champions–this was the image that dominated Western thinking about Soviet sports. But for Soviet citizens the experience of watching sports in the USSR was always very different.