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'Football is an excellent way in to understanding any country, and if there's one country we need to understand better now, it's Russia. An extremely timely book.'

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Simon Kuper, co-author of 'Soccernomics'

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'A fascinating, thorough and at times revealing investigation into the origins of football in the USSR.'

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Jonathan Wilson, author of 'Inverting the Pyramid'

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'A fascinating, brilliantly researched insight into the patchwork origins of the ruthless powerhouse that Soviet football would become.'

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Robert O'Connor, author of 'Blood and Circuses'