User:Carcharoth/Article incubator/Soviet chess


 * Alternative title: Chess and the Soviet Union

We have Soviet Chess School, but not an article on the history of chess in the USSR and the position chess occupied in that country, and the effects of chess on Soviet culture and of the politics and ideology of the USSR on the chess players, and the tensions between the chess masters from the 'old Russia' and the chess masters that grew up in the USSR, and also those that spoke out against the government, and the Cold War aspects, and those chess masters that emigrated and/or defected to the West.