Cultural Change in Central Asia: Brezhnev, Modern Sports, and Memories in Uzbekistan, 1964 to 1982

Akyildiz, Sevket Hylton

doi:10.9737/hist.2020.819

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“…All categories of sports infrastructure and services opened to cater to popular demand and a growing local population. 47 The CPSU promoted sports culture, and sports continued to grow at amateur and elite levels in Soviet society between 1950 and 1985. Indeed, the modern sports facilities were a visual and physical presence on the cityscape to say that the socialist lifestyle was a reality.…”

Section: Implementation: Uzbekistan's Sportspeople and Facilitiesmentioning

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Sport in Central Asia under Gorbachev: Uzbekistan from 1985 to 1991

Akyildiz¹

2021

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This paper assesses the modern and traditional sports of the Soviet Union shortly before its collapse in 1991. The case study is the Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan under the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU, established 1917). Central Asia is a crucial historical case because it was a Muslim-majority region that Moscow wished to transform. The study is interdisciplinary and contains primary and secondary sources from the Cold War era. The research question asks: What did the implementation and impact of Soviet sport look like in Uzbekistan under Mikhail Gorbachev (CPSU leader from March 1985 to December 1991). Uzbekistan's sportspeople, facilities, Spartakiad ranking of 1983, Olympic athletes, and traditional sports are the topics examined.

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Sport in Central Asia under Gorbachev: Uzbekistan from 1985 to 1991

Akyildiz¹

2021

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“Beden Kültürü ve Spor Günlük Hayatın Parçası Olacak”: Orta Asya'nın Özbeki̇stan'ında Khruschev'i̇n Komüni̇st Sporları, 1953-1964

AKYİLDİZ

2023

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Lenin commenced Soviet physical culture and sports during the mid-1920s, and Stalin organised it significantly during the 1930s and 1940s. It was part of Stalin’s Cultural Revolution and the implementation of Soviet modernity. This qualitative and quantitative research paper investigates physical culture and sports 33 years after its founding when Khrushchev was the communist leader (1953 to 1964). The geographic focus is on the Central Asian republic with the largest population and emerging urbanisation: Uzbekistan. The paper explores the extent of Khrushchev’s physical culture and sports development in that country. It is a topic with little published research in English. Using select English language secondary sources from the West and the former Soviet Union, the major research question asks (i) What were Khrushchev's output and impact on physical culture and sport in Uzbekistan? In support is the minor research question: (ii) What were the numbers of male and female sportspeople, and what type of urban sports sites opened? Overall, the paper highlights that an authoritarian communist regime was increasingly successful in developing modern physical culture and sports in the majority Muslim Turkic and Persian regions, primarily in the cities.

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Cultural Change in Central Asia: Brezhnev, Modern Sports, and Memories in Uzbekistan, 1964 to 1982

Cited by 2 publications

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Sport in Central Asia under Gorbachev: Uzbekistan from 1985 to 1991

Sport in Central Asia under Gorbachev: Uzbekistan from 1985 to 1991

“Beden Kültürü ve Spor Günlük Hayatın Parçası Olacak”: Orta Asya'nın Özbeki̇stan'ında Khruschev'i̇n Komüni̇st Sporları, 1953-1964

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