Picturing the Workers' Olympics and the Spartakiads: Modernist and Avant-Garde Engagement with Sport in Central Europe and the USSR, 1920-1932 [Paperback]

This volume focuses on the modernist and avant-garde engagement with workers sport events that were organised or were planned to be organised in the cities of Central Europe and the USSR in the period of 1920-1932: Frankfurt am Main  Vienna  Moscow  Prague  Budapest  Berlin.

 1. The New Great Power. The First Workers Olympics in Frankfurt am Main as a Socialist Olympia, 1925  2. The Giants at the Prater Stadium. Visualising the Second Workers Olympics in the Socialist Paradise: the Red Vienna, 1931  3. Every Worker-Athlete Must be a Soldier of the Revolution. From Vsevobuch to Gustav Kluciss Spartakiada series, 1928  4. The Communist Workers Sport for the Revolution, for the Proletariat, for the People. Devtsil, FPT and the Visual Propaganda of the Second Spartakiad in Prague, 1928  5. The Collective Embodiment of the Red Man. Workers Physical Training Association, Munka Circle and Worker Photography in Budapest  6. Overcoming all Obstacles  Red Sport! Visualising solidarity and hope for Communist Sport in Berlin, 1931-1932  7. Conclusion

This volume focuses on the modernist and avant-garde engagement with workers sport events that were organised or were planned to be organised in the cities of Central Europe and the USSR in the period of 19201932: Frankfurt am Main  Vienna  Moscow  Prague  Budapest  Berlin.

During the 1920s and 1930s, two organisations of workers sport operated: the Lucerne Sport International/Socialist Workers Sport International and the Red Sport International, which held the socialist Workers Olympics and the communist Spartakiads, respectively. These events were not aimed at cultivating national victories and individual athletic records, but at mobilising workers for the class struggle and at creating new culture for the working class. This book examines the visual propagandalc!