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

Other author Edelman, Robert, 1945-
Other author Young, Christopher, 1967-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoStanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2020.
Descriptionxi, 334 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
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SeriesCold War International History Project
Cold War International History Project series. ^A477120
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
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LCCN 2019012949
ISBN9781503610187 (cloth : alk. paper)
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