bridge in the SSSR

[Robert Orr]

But was bridge not originally a Russian game in any case?

http://www.pagat.com/boston/biritch.html


 

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[mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Tim West
Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2011 3:01 PM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: [SEELANGS] bridge in the SSSR

Dear colleagues,

A friend was recently told that contract bridge was illegal in the Soviet
Union, and she would like to find sources that might explain or refute this.
A quick Russian google search yields only an anekdot that has Stalin playing
bridge with members of the Politburo; an English site informs that he
outlawed bridge because it was "bourgeois," but it provides no
documentation. Can anyone help, either anecdotally or with sources?

Thanks,
Tim West
Princeton Univ.

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