The whole world was watching : sport in the Cold War
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The whole world was watching : sport in the Cold War
（Cold War International History Project series）
Stanford University Press, c2020
- : cloth
Available at 2 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction : explaining Cold War sport / Robert Edelman and Christopher Young
- In the "twilight warzone" : overt and covert dimensions of the US sports offensive / 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, 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