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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Long Boards in the Long Nineteenth Century | |
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| Skiing: An Ancient Solution to Winter's Problems | |
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| Polar Exploration and the Great Game | |
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| The Ski Clubs of Russia | |
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| Ski Entrepreneurs: "A Wonderful Gift for Christmas!" | |
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| The Sokol Movement in Russia | |
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| Women's Skiing | |
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| Ski Racing and Nordiska Spelen | |
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| A Ski Race to the South Pole | |
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| The First World War to NEP | |
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| The Great War | |
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| Revolution and Civil War in Russia | |
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| Cavalry and Skiing | |
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| The Soviet Hero-Toivo Antikainen | |
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| Ski-Shooting and the Home Guard | |
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| Women's Skiing after the Revolution | |
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| Team Events and Relay Races | |
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| Skiing, Shooting and the Military Patrol Race | |
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| Equipping the Masses with Skis | |
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| Polar Exploration in the 1920s | |
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| Stalin and the Inter-War Years | |
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| Multi-Day Ski Treks and the Stakhanovites | |
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| Mechanized Cavalry and Stalin's Arctic | |
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| Gotov k trudu i oborone: Ready for Labor and Defense | |
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| Sports Classification System | |
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| Fascist States and International Sports | |
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| The Winter War and the Great Patriotic War, 1939-1945 | |
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| The Winter War, 1939-1940 | |
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| "Hurrah for Comrade Stalin!" | |
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| S. K. Timoshenko and the Ski Mobilization Movement | |
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| The Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945 | |
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| Post-War Soviet Sports and the Birth of Biathlon | |
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| The Myth of War | |
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| The Soviet Union and International Cross-Country Ski Racing | |
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| Soviet Skiers Take to the International Stage | |
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| The Birth of Biathlon | |
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| Biathlon in the USSR | |
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| Skiing, Shooting and Politics, 1960 to 1962 | |
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| Balancing Skiing with Shooting | |
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| The Eighth Winter Olympics: Squaw Valley, California, 1960 | |
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| Revamping Biathlon | |
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| Ski Racing as a Spectator Sport | |
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| Zakopane, Poland, and Ume�, Sweden, 1961 | |
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| The World Ski Championships of 1962: "La guerre froide et le sport" | |
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| H�meenlinna, Finland: Fourth Biathlon World Championship, 1962 | |
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| The Triumph of Soviet Biathlon, 1963 to 1966 | |
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| Seefeld, Austria: Fifth Biathlon World Championship, 1963 | |
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| The Ninth Winter Olympics: Innsbruck and Seefeld, Austria, 1964 | |
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| "Repetition of a Legend" | |
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| The Last of the Old Program Competitions: Elverum, Norway, 1965 | |
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| "Sport Is the Cosmonauts' Assistant" | |
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| Biathlon's New Epoch | |
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| Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany: Biathlon World Championships, 1966 | |
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| The Era of Aleksandr Tikhonov | |
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| "Sasha Tikhonov from Novosibirsk" | |
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| The Tenth Winter Olympics: Grenoble, France, 1968 | |
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| The Olympic Biathlon Relay | |
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| Tikhonov in the Limelight | |
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| Minsk: Thirteenth Biathlon World Championships, 1974 | |
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| 1974: The Year of Change | |
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| Sport as Spectacle | |
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| "Accept Flowers, Guests of Minsk!" | |
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| The Fifteenth Winter Olympic Games: Calgary, Canada, 1988 | |
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| The East German Sports Program | |
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| Steroids, Drugs and Blood | |
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| Big Sport, Big Business | |
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| The Winter Olympics: Calgary, 1988 | |
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| "I've Created What They Say Is an International Incident" | |
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| Calgary's Aftermath | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |