Introduction: The beauty and idealism of sports -- The cult(ure) of the circus wrestler in pre-revolutionary Russia -- Lyrical games: the poetics of Russia's modern sports movement -- Revolutionary goals: modern sports in Russian and early Soviet avant-garde art -- An eye for athletics: silent cinema and early Soviet sports -- Framing the future: Soviet sports in early Soviet photomontage and photography -- Higher and faster: art in the era of Stalinist sports -- Conclusion and coda: "unearthly order and splendor."
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