Breakaway : from behind the Iron Curtain to the NHL : the untold story of hockey's great escapes
- Title
- Breakaway : from behind the Iron Curtain to the NHL : the untold story of hockey's great escapes / Tal Pinchevksy.
- Published by
- Etobicoke, ON : John Wiley & Sons Canada, ©2012.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- 274 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
- Summary
- Until the fall of the Iron Curtain and the collapse of the Soviet Union, athletes in Eastern Europe were prized as national heroes and afforded relative luxuries compared to other citizens. they still lived under the heel of a system that punished even the slightest transgressions or resistance to authority. Risking imprisonment, retaliation against their families, or worse, a slow trickle of extremely talented hockey players defected to the West, seeking a life in North America with the NHL that they couldn't achieve elsewhere. Tal Pinchevsky traces their lives and the paths and dangers they faced, based on interviews he conducted with the players, their families, and the many people who helped them to break away.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Contents
- The prague spring -- The European project -- The beginning of the Czech-sodus -- The juniors -- The Russians are coming -- The young ones -- The last defector.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Note
- Includes index.