books.google.de - Sports played a vital role in the social and cultural life of the former Soviet Union. The Soviet state sponsored countless programs to promote sporting activities, even constructing a new term, fizkultura, to describe sports culture. With Sport in the USSR, Mike O’Mahony asserts that the popular...http://books.google.de/books/about/Sport_in_the_USSR.html?hl=de&id=v1cx_zST8rIC&q=defence&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareSport in the USSR