Jelena Bogdanović, Lilien Filipovitch Robinson and Igor Marjanović (eds), On the Very Edge: Modernism and Modernity in the Arts and Architecture of Interwar Serbia (1918-1941), 2014
Over the course of only 22 years, the advancement of modernist design and the quality and rate of... more Over the course of only 22 years, the advancement of modernist design and the quality and rate of construction of sports grounds in interwar Belgrade reflect the city's own dramatic transformation from an unassuming capital of a small Balkan state into a modern European city of growing political stature. Population growth and territorial expansion meant that Belgrade was continuously under construction. The city changed dramatically and its citizens acquired new tastes, routines and habits appropriate to life in a metropolis. A new and dominant focus was soccer, a game which became extremely popular in post-war Belgrade. In the interwar period, the development of sports architecture in Yugoslavia followed a singular path. It encompassed the improvisations of the early 1920s, modern and practical designs of the late 1920s and early 1930s, modeled on Western and Central European venues and the national, Serbo-Byzantine style of "Soko" stadiums and training grounds. The latter was reflective of and closely connected to the era of Yugoslav nationalism and integralism of the early 1930s. By the late 1930s there was also an acceptance of German forms of neoclassicism as exemplified by the joint Yugoslav-German project for the Belgrade Olympic complex. The formidable challenges that sports architecture in Yugoslavia faced were inevitable if viewed against the backdrop of over three decades of national, political, economic and social transformation. This experience was more than that of sports architecture but a larger reflection of the interwar period.
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манифестација навијања, како су га доживљавали савременици, и навијачких ривалстава (локално-регионална, национална и политичка). Пошто је рана историја југословенских фудбалских навијача слабо обрађена у историографији и другим друштвеним наукама, један од главних циљева овог рада је тај да заправо буде
својеврсни увод у даља истраживања ове фасцинантне теме. Рад је писан на основу доступне архивске грађе, релевантне литературе, доступне штампе и сачуваних успомена, мемоара и дневника.
The Ministry of Physical Education that had come to being as an administrative body already in the times of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia with the task of regimenting sports policy and overseeing sports associations and unions, was abolished as an independent entity after the April War of 1941 and dismemberment of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and setting up of the occupation administration in Serbia. Since sports life went on even under occupation, the need to control it and eventually channel it ideologically and use it for propaganda purposes was perceived. For that reason it was decided to reestablish the Ministry of Physical Education of the People as a special department within the Ministry of Education – in keeping with the ideology that saw sport and physical training as tools in the process of national re-education. The Department of Physical Education did a big job of regularizing sports conditions in the country, penned various studies and reports, listed all sports associations, finished controlling standing orders and statutes of clubs and prepared several bills concerning sports policy. In late 1942 the Department of Physical Education was abolished and its tasks were divided between two offices: the Department of Physical Education and Sports that dealt mostly with procedure and administrative matters, and the State Sports Committee, advisory body with the Ministry of Education that dealt more with ideological issues.
манифестација навијања, како су га доживљавали савременици, и навијачких ривалстава (локално-регионална, национална и политичка). Пошто је рана историја југословенских фудбалских навијача слабо обрађена у историографији и другим друштвеним наукама, један од главних циљева овог рада је тај да заправо буде
својеврсни увод у даља истраживања ове фасцинантне теме. Рад је писан на основу доступне архивске грађе, релевантне литературе, доступне штампе и сачуваних успомена, мемоара и дневника.
The Ministry of Physical Education that had come to being as an administrative body already in the times of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia with the task of regimenting sports policy and overseeing sports associations and unions, was abolished as an independent entity after the April War of 1941 and dismemberment of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and setting up of the occupation administration in Serbia. Since sports life went on even under occupation, the need to control it and eventually channel it ideologically and use it for propaganda purposes was perceived. For that reason it was decided to reestablish the Ministry of Physical Education of the People as a special department within the Ministry of Education – in keeping with the ideology that saw sport and physical training as tools in the process of national re-education. The Department of Physical Education did a big job of regularizing sports conditions in the country, penned various studies and reports, listed all sports associations, finished controlling standing orders and statutes of clubs and prepared several bills concerning sports policy. In late 1942 the Department of Physical Education was abolished and its tasks were divided between two offices: the Department of Physical Education and Sports that dealt mostly with procedure and administrative matters, and the State Sports Committee, advisory body with the Ministry of Education that dealt more with ideological issues.
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