The Mighty Dynamos of 1945: Soviet Athletic Skill in Spectator Sports

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dc.contributor.authorHannaford-Craveiro, Xander
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-08T13:34:50Z
dc.date.available2025-05-08T13:34:50Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractThe USSR, like many nations, wanted to harness the propaganda potential that spectator sports possessed. Through this, Soviet sporting merit increased as shown with the rise of their domestic soccer (football) clubs of which many were intertwined with branches of the Soviet state apparatus. The Soviets wanted to prove that their athletes and teams could go head-to-head and defeat those of capitalist nations, which would be a massive propaganda victory for the Soviet socialist system. This project looks at one instance where this successfully occurred, when the Soviet soccer (football) club Dynamo Moscow went to the home of the sport, Great Britain, on tour and in only four games gave the Britons who underestimated them a major shock.
dc.description.reviewstatusReviewed
dc.description.scholarlevelUndergraduate
dc.description.sponsorshipJamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Awards (JCURA)
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/22182
dc.publisherUniversity Of Victoria
dc.subjectdynamo
dc.subjectsoviet
dc.subjectsoccer
dc.subjectmoscow
dc.subjectathletics
dc.subjectsport
dc.titleThe Mighty Dynamos of 1945: Soviet Athletic Skill in Spectator Sports
dc.typePoster

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