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i ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I wish to express my gratitude to people, who helped me in this academic endeavor. This project would not be possible without their full support. I would like to gratefully thank my supervisor and the director of the BSRS program, Markku Jokisipilä, for the academic guidance, critical comments and valuable advice on sports materials as well as the trust and enthusiasm he has shown on my research topic. I would also like to thank our program’s coordinator, Tarja Hyppönen, for resolving all those academic and non-academic matters throughout the course of the studies so I could keep myself focused working on my thesis. I also take an immense pleasure to thank our English teacher, Brett Dellinger, whose helpful writing advice was indispensable to my work. My kind regards go to the hospitable librarians of the National Library of Latvia, whose enthusiastic assistance in finding the historical material on “Dinamo Riga” was paramount to accomplishing this project. Last but not least, I would like to express my gratitude and love to my family. Thank you, mom, dad and brother for your care and unconditional support of my studies in the University of Turku. Your absolute devotion to my academic endeavors in Finland was fundamental to making this work a reality.
ii TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................ 1 A. THE KHL AND DINAMO RIGA ............................................................................. 1 B. PURPOSE AND IMPORTANCE .............................................................................. 3 C. LITERATURE REVIEW .......................................................................................... 5 1. The Global Sports Interactions in the 20 th Century’s Historical Context ............... 5 2. Cultural Homogeneity and Diversity in the Global Diffusion of Sports ................ 9 3. Globalization, Sports, National Communities and Identities ............................... 11 4. Sports in the Soviet Union and Latvia ................................................................. 13 D. METHODOLOGY AND SOURCES ....................................................................... 16 1. The Methodological Perspective, Research Framework and Content .................. 16 2. Primary and Secondary Sources ........................................................................... 18 II. THE EMERGENCE OF THE KHL IN THE GLOBAL SPORTS CONTEXT ............ 19 A. The Stockholm Swansong: The Collapse of the Soviet Hockey System ................ 19 B. The Dark Ages of Russian Hockey ......................................................................... 23 C. Russian National Insurgency to a Global Hockey Homogeneity ............................ 25 D. The Emergence of a New “Zone of Prestige” in International Hockey .................. 29 III. THE HAUNTING SOVIET HERITAGE OF DINAMO RIGA ................................. 34 A. At the Cradle of Soviet Hockey .............................................................................. 34 B. The Passion Returns! The Golden Age of Latvian Hockey .................................... 41 C. The Global Prospects of Latvian Hockey in the post-Cold War Era: At the Crossroad of New National Trajectories and Post-Soviet Realities ........................ 50 IV. THE MODERN REBIRTH OF DINAMO RIGA ....................................................... 56 A. The New Geopolitical Context: The Rediscovering of Russia after the EU’s Eastern Enlargement ............................................................................................................. 56 B. The International Revival of “Dinamo Riga” in the Context of the Restart of Latvian-Russian Relations ....................................................................................... 62 V. DINAMO RIGA IN THE KONTINENTAL HOCKEY LEAGUE .............................. 70 A. The Case of “Dinamo Riga” in the KHL: The Global Prospects and National Struggles in the Development of Sporting Nationalism in Latvian Hockey ............ 70
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