The whole world was watching : sport in the Cold War / edited by Robert Edelman and Christopher Young.

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9781503611016

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GV706 .W465 2020

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Robert Edelman and Christopher Young -- The state-private network : overt and covert US intervention in early Cold War sport / Toby C. Rider -- No quarrel with them Vietcong : Muhammad Ali's Cold War / Elliott J. Gorn -- Breaking the ice : Alexei Kosygin and the secret background of the 1972 hockey summit series / James Hershberg -- Action in the era of stagnation : Leonid Brezhnev and the Soviet Olympic dream / Mikhail Prozumenshikov -- Soccer artistry and the secret police : Georgian football in the multiethnic Soviet empire / Erik R. Scott -- Russian fever pitch : global fandom, youth culture, and the public sphere in the late Soviet Union / Manfred Zeller -- "Eulogy to theft" : Berliner FC Dynamo (BFC), East German football, and the end of communism / Alan McDougall -- Sports, politics and "wild doping" in the East German sporting "miracle" / Mike Dennis -- "The most beautiful face of socialism" : Katarina Witt and the sexual politics of sport in the Cold War / Annette F. Timm -- Learning from the Soviet big brother : the early years of sport in the People's Republic of China / Amanda Shuman -- "The communist bandits have been repudiated" : Cold War-era sport in Taiwan / Andrew D. Morris -- New regional order : sport, Cold War culture, and the making of Southeast Asia / Simon Creak -- Negotiating colonial repression : African footballers in Salazar's Portugal / Todd Cleveland -- Deflected confrontations : Cold War baseball in the Caribbean / Rob Ruck -- Ambivalent solidarities : cultural diplomacy, women and South-South cooperation at the 1950s Pan-American Games / Brenda Elsey.

Subject: This state-of-the-field volume seeks to understand the cultural phenomenon of sports in the Cold War in its fullest social, political, cultural and global dimensions. Essays from an international lineup of contributors consider sport as a vital sphere for understanding the complex geopolitics and cultural politics of the time, not just in terms of commerce and celebrity, but also with respect to shifting notions of race, class, and gender.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : explaining Cold War sport / Robert Edelman and Christopher Young -- The state-private network : overt and covert US intervention in early Cold War sport / Toby C. Rider -- No quarrel with them Vietcong : Muhammad Ali's Cold War / Elliott J. Gorn -- Breaking the ice : Alexei Kosygin and the secret background of the 1972 hockey summit series / James Hershberg -- Action in the era of stagnation : Leonid Brezhnev and the Soviet Olympic dream / Mikhail Prozumenshikov -- Soccer artistry and the secret police : Georgian football in the multiethnic Soviet empire / Erik R. Scott -- Russian fever pitch : global fandom, youth culture, and the public sphere in the late Soviet Union / Manfred Zeller -- "Eulogy to theft" : Berliner FC Dynamo (BFC), East German football, and the end of communism / Alan McDougall -- Sports, politics and "wild doping" in the East German sporting "miracle" / Mike Dennis -- "The most beautiful face of socialism" : Katarina Witt and the sexual politics of sport in the Cold War / Annette F. Timm -- Learning from the Soviet big brother : the early years of sport in the People's Republic of China / Amanda Shuman -- "The communist bandits have been repudiated" : Cold War-era sport in Taiwan / Andrew D. Morris -- New regional order : sport, Cold War culture, and the making of Southeast Asia / Simon Creak -- Negotiating colonial repression : African footballers in Salazar's Portugal / Todd Cleveland -- Deflected confrontations : Cold War baseball in the Caribbean / Rob Ruck -- Ambivalent solidarities : cultural diplomacy, women and South-South cooperation at the 1950s Pan-American Games / Brenda Elsey.

This state-of-the-field volume seeks to understand the cultural phenomenon of sports in the Cold War in its fullest social, political, cultural and global dimensions. Essays from an international lineup of contributors consider sport as a vital sphere for understanding the complex geopolitics and cultural politics of the time, not just in terms of commerce and celebrity, but also with respect to shifting notions of race, class, and gender.

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