Content	6
	Foreword	10
	I. Sites and Media	14
	Sites and Media: Introduction – Mike O’Mahony	16
	Sports Visions and Sports Places: The Social Topography of Sport in Late Imperial St. Petersburg and its Representation in Contemporary Photography (1890–1914) – Ekaterina Emeliantseva	20
	Exploring the Power of the Curve: Projects for an International Red Stadium in 1920s Moscow – Alexandra Köhring	42
	Frozen Action: Thoughts on Sport, Discipline and the Arts in the Soviet Union of the 1930s – Bettina Jungen	62
	Changing Images of Sport in the Early Soviet Press – Sandra Budy	72
	The Swimming Vtorova Sisters: The Representation and Experience of Sport in the 1930s – Christina Kiaer	90
	Heading into Modernity: Sporting Culture, Architecture and Photography in the Early Turkish Republic – Burcu Dogramaci	112
	II. Milieus and Memory	126
	Milieus and Memory: Introduction – Louise McReynolds	128
	Imperial Careers and National Recollection: Baltic Wrestlers and the Organization of National Sports in the Late Tsarist Empire (using the example of Estonia) – Karsten Brüggemann	134
	An Academic Escape to the Periphery? The Social and Cultural Milieu of Soviet – Mountaineering from the 1920s to the 1960s – Eva Maurer	160
	Beyond the Death Match: Sport under German Occupation between Repression and Integration, 1941–1944 – Volodymyr Ginda	180
	“The Second Stalingrad”: Soccer Fandom, Popular Memory and the Legacy of the Stalinist Past – Manfred Zeller	202
	Romantic Underdogs: Spartak in the Golden Age of Soviet Soccer, 1945–1952 – Robert Edelman	226
	III. Gender and Science	246
	Gender and Science: Introduction – Irina Bykhovskaya	248
	Emancipation within the Ruling Ideology: Soviet Women in Fizkul’tura and Sport in the 1920s and 1930s – Kateryna Kobchenko	252
	Training Methods and Soccer Tactics in the Late Soviet Union: Rational Systems of Bodies and Space – Hans-Joachim Braun, Nikolaus Katzer	270
	Soviet Women in Sports in the Brezhnev Years: The Female Body and Soviet Modernism – Anke Hilbrenner	296
	“… if Jarmila Kratochvilova is the future of women’s sports, I’m not sure I’m ready for it.” Media, Gender and the Cold War – Stefan Wiederkehr	316
	Epilogue	338
	Sport, Sport, Sport, or a Cinematic Experiment with the ‘Formula of Harmony’ – Christine Gölz	340
	Supplement	362