The Olympic Games, the Soviet sports bureaucracy, and the Cold War red sport, red tape

Presentación del editor: "Using previously inaccessible archival documents, this study provides a longitudinal investigation of the middle levels of Soviet bureaucracy responsible for overseeing Olympic Sport during the Cold War. Spanning the period from the USSR's Olympic debut in 1952 th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Parks, Jenifer, 1974- autor (autor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Maryland [etc.] : Lexington Books 2017
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Verbal gymnastics : the Soviet Union enters the Olympic movement
  • Leveling the playing field : Soviet sports administrators abroad and international sports exchanges under Khrushchev, 1953-1964
  • Getting things done : Soviet bureaucrats' expanding role in the IOC and Moscow's bid to host the games
  • "An exemplary communist city" : preparing Moscow for the 1980 Olympic Games
  • A job well done? : welcoming the world to the 1980 Moscow Olympiad.