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Isser Woloch. The French Veteran from the Revolution to the Restoration. Pp. 392. University of North Carolina Press,

vides the best apparatus for subsidizing athletes, for integrating athletics and education, for funding research, and for providing appropriate recognition for athletes. Other countries would do well in Riordan’s eyes to consider the implementation of a similar sport system. Soviet Sport is not the best of Riordan’s publications on Soviet sports. It contains neither the detail nor the scope of Sport in Soviet Society (Cambridge, 1977) or Sport under Communism (Columbia, 1979.). The fact that his discussion neglects the political ramifications of the 1980 boycott and the events leading up to the United States’ withdrawal suggests that Riordan has committed a