Physical exercise and the Russian Transformation

 People will immediately divide into “parties” over issues such as the construction of a new large canal, the movement of refuges across the Sahara (which is undoubtedly a topic of discussion), the regulation of the weather and climate, the construction of a new theater, chemical theories, conflicting musical preferences, and the best sports system.

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Sport had not taken off in Russia at the start of the 20th century to the same extent as it did in nations like Britain. The vast majority of Russians were peasants who toiled long hours every day in physically taxing farming tasks. People had a hard time finding leisure time and were frequently exhausted from their jobs. It is evident that people continued to play, engaging in customary pastimes like gorodki, a bowling game, and lapta, a baseball-like activity. In larger cities, there were a few athletic clubs, but these were reserved for the most affluent segments of society.

The Russian Revolution of 1917 turned the world upside down and inspired millions of people with its vision of a society based on mutual aid and meeting basic human needs. It also unleashed a creative explosion in literature, poetry, songs, and artwork. It affected every aspect of peoples’ life, including the games they engaged in. But engaging in sports was by no means a priority. The Bolsheviks, the revolution’s leaders, faced a typhus epidemic, civil conflict, invading armies, and widespread scarcity. It was a lineup for survival, not leisure. However, the debate for a “ideal system of sports” took place in the very early 1920s, prior to Stalin crushing the urge for revolution.

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The hygienists, as their name implies, were a group of medical professionals and physicians whose perspectives were informed by their clinical experience. Generally speaking, they were vital to sports activities because they worried that the competitors’ attention would put players at risk of harm. They also thought less of the West’s obsession with running faster, throwing more, and leaping higher than before. “It’s completely unnecessary and irrelevant,” A said.

Hygienists had a brief influence on Soviet policy regarding physical society issues. Their advice led to the prohibition of some sports and the exclusion of football, boxing, and weightlifting from the First Profession Union Gamings event schedule in 1925. Nonetheless the hygienists were far from consentaneous in their stricture of sporting activity. For instance, tennis player V.V. Gorinevsky believed that playing the game was the best kind of physical activity. Nikolai Semashko, a medical professional and also individuals’s Commissar for Wellness, went much further arguing that sport was “the open gate to physical culture” which “creates the type of will-power, stamina as well as ability that should distinguish Soviet people.”