Fiskultura

Fiskultura ( Russian Физкультура ; suitcase word from Fisitscheskaja kultura Russian Физическая культура ) or, in GDR parlance, physical culture is the name of the fitness culture of Soviet-influenced socialism / communism that sets itself apart from bourgeois sport. In Soviet Russia , after the revolution of 1917, two currents in workers' sport were connected from above, the more aesthetically oriented proletarian cult and the health / hygienically oriented, in contemporary Germany called physical culture .

This quickly became the first fitness movement of Soviet mass society, it was meant to be more than sport, but to cultivate the people.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Henning Eichberg: Body cultur in SW Pope John Nauright (eds.): Routledge Companion to Sports History , 2009, ISBN 9780203885413 , pp 162-181, S. 165f.
2. ↑ Klaus Gestwa: social engineering under Stalin and Khrushchev, 1928-1964 , in: Thomas Etzemüller (eds.): The order of modernity: social engineering in the 20th century , 2009, ISBN 9783837611533 , pp 241ff, 268f..