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Author | : Erin Elizabeth Redihan |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2017-02-28 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1476627282 |
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For Olympic athletes, fans and the media alike, the games bring out the best sport has to offer--unity, patriotism, friendly competition and the potential for stunning upsets. Yet wherever international competition occurs, politics are never far removed. Early in the Cold War, when all U.S.-Soviet interactions were treated as potential matters of life and death, each side tried to manipulate the International Olympic Committee. Despite the IOC's efforts to keep the games apolitical, they were quickly drawn into the superpowers' global struggle for supremacy, with medal counts the ultimate prize. Based on IOC, U.S. government and contemporary media sources, this book looks at six consecutive Olympiads to show how high the stakes became once the Soviets began competing in 1952, threatening America's athletic supremacy.
Author | : Erin Elizabeth Redihan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Cold War |
ISBN | : |
Download Winning Hearts and Medals Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Despite IOC president Avery Brundage’s and others’ best efforts to keep the Olympic Games free of political concerns, politics had become a driving force behind the Games by the 1960s. What Brundage and others never realized was that politics and nationalism have always been important aspects of the modern Olympic Movement. While Brundage strove to keep the Games true to his construction of their founder’s vision, the Games were not immune to change. They needed to grow and evolve to remain viable. Rather than ruining the Games as Brundage feared, these external politics, and especially those related to the Cold War, actually helped the Games. These forces made the Olympics more relevant to international affairs while simultaneously inflating governmental, spectator, and press interest in the Olympic Movement. Therefore, the superpowers and the Olympic Movement both profited from the Cold War’s intersection with the Games. While Moscow and Washington gained a low-stakes battlefield, the IOC benefitted from the added exposure and intrigue associated with all things Cold War-related during the 1950s and 1960s."--Page [ii].
Author | : Harry Blutstein |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2021-12-03 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1476686874 |
Download Cold War Olympics Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The political tension of the Cold War bled into the Olympic Games when each side engaged in psychological warfare, exploiting sport for political ends. In Helsinki, the Soviet Union nearly overtook the United States in the medal count. Caught off guard, the U.S. hastened to respond, certain that the Soviets would use a victory at the next Olympics to broadcast their superiority over the Western world. Following the 1956 suppression of the Hungarian uprising, a Soviet athlete struck a Hungarian opponent in the Melbourne water polo semifinals, turning the pool red. The United States covertly encouraged Eastern Bloc athletes to defect, communist Chinese agents nearly succeeded in goading the Taiwanese government into withdrawing from the games, and a forbidden romance between an American and Czech athlete resulted in a politically complex marriage. This history describes those stories and more that resulted from the complicated relationship between Cold War politics and the Olympics.
Author | : Laura Lee Holden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Olympic Games |
ISBN | : |
Download An Investigation of the Sociopolitical Influences on the Olympic Games Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Traite des influences socio-politiques sur les Jeux Olympiques. Compare des résultats d'athlètes américains et russes. Une étude de l'époque de la guerre froide et de la propagande des régimes politiques.
Author | : Jenifer Parks |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781498541183 |
Download The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, and the Cold War Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This study examines the Soviet bureaucracy responsible for overseeing Olympic sport during the Cold War. It analyzes how sport administrators used political savvy and professional pragmatism alongside ideological drive to expand participation, maximize chances of success, and achieve Soviet political and diplomatic aims.
Author | : Erin Elizabeth Redihan |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2017-03-08 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1476667888 |
Download The Olympics and the Cold War, 1948-1968 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
For Olympic athletes, fans and the media alike, the games bring out the best sport has to offer--unity, patriotism, friendly competition and the potential for stunning upsets. Yet wherever international competition occurs, politics are never far removed. Early in the Cold War, when all U.S.-Soviet interactions were treated as potential matters of life and death, each side tried to manipulate the International Olympic Committee. Despite the IOC's efforts to keep the games apolitical, they were quickly drawn into the superpowers' global struggle for supremacy, with medal counts the ultimate prize. Based on IOC, U.S. government and contemporary media sources, this book looks at six consecutive Olympiads to show how high the stakes became once the Soviets began competing in 1952, threatening America's athletic supremacy.
Author | : Toby C Rider |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-05-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780252040238 |
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It is the early Cold War. The Soviet Union appears to be in irresistible ascendance and moves to exploit the Olympic Games as a vehicle for promoting international communism. In response, the United States conceives a subtle, far-reaching psychological warfare campaign to blunt the Soviet advance. Drawing on newly declassified materials and archives, Toby C. Rider chronicles how the U.S. government used the Olympics to promote democracy and its own policy aims during the tense early phase of the Cold War. Rider shows how the government, though constrained by traditions against interference in the Games, eluded detection by cooperating with private groups, including secretly funded émigré organizations bent on liberating their home countries from Soviet control. At the same time, the United States utilized Olympic host cities as launching pads for hyping the American economic and political system. Behind the scenes, meanwhile, the government attempted clandestine manipulation of the International Olympic Committee. Rider also details the campaigns that sent propaganda materials around the globe as the United States mobilized culture in general, and sports in particular, to fight the communist threat. Deeply researched and boldly argued, Cold War Games recovers an essential chapter in Olympic and postwar history.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 11 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Olympic Games |
ISBN | : |
Download The Emergence of the Cold War Olympics Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Lindsay Pieper |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2016-05-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0252098447 |
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In 1968, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) implemented sex testing for female athletes at that year's Games. When it became clear that testing regimes failed to delineate a sex divide, the IOC began to test for gender--a shift that allowed the organization to control the very idea of womanhood. Ranging from Cold War tensions to gender anxiety to controversies around doping, Lindsay Parks Pieper explores sex testing in sport from the 1930s to the early 2000s. Pieper examines how the IOC in particular insisted on a misguided binary notion of gender that privileged Western norms. Testing evolved into a tool to identify--and eliminate--athletes the IOC deemed too strong, too fast, or too successful. Pieper shows how this system punished gifted women while hindering the development of women's athletics for decades. She also reveals how the flawed notions behind testing--ideas often sexist, racist, or ridiculous--degraded the very idea of female athleticism.
Author | : Heather Dichter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Cold War |
ISBN | : 9781613768716 |
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"During the Cold War, political tensions associated with the division of Germany came to influence the world of competitive sport. In the 1950s, West Germany and its NATO allies refused to recognize the communist East German state and barred its national teams from sporting competitions. The construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 further exacerbated these pressures, with East German teams denied travel to several world championships. These tensions would only intensify in the run-up to the 1968 Olympics. In Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games, Heather L. Dichter considers how NATO and its member states used sport as a diplomatic arena during the height of the Cold War, and how international sport responded to political interference. Drawing on archival materials from NATO, foreign ministries, domestic and international sport functionaries, and newspapers, Dichter examines controversies surrounding the 1968 Summer and Winter Olympic Games, particularly the bidding process between countries to host the events. As she demonstrates, during the Cold War sport and politics became so intertwined that they had the power to fundamentally transform each other"--