For further study the following resources are recommended.

Yuri Brokhin, The Big Red Machine: The Rise and Fall of Soviet Olympic Champions (New York: 1978)

Robert Edelman, Serious Fun: A History of Spectator Sports in the USSR (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).

Christel Lane, The Rites of Rulers: Ritual in Industrial Societies-The Soviet Case (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981).

Lawrence Martin, The Red Machine: The Soviet Quest to Dominate Canada's Game (Toronto, 1990).

Henry Morton, Soviet Sports: Mirror of Soviet Society (New York: Columbia University Press, 1963).

James Riordan, Sports in Soviet Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977).