Cold war games : propaganda, the Olympics, and U.S. foreign policy

Cold war games : propaganda, the Olympics, and U.S. foreign policy /

"The U.S. Government became increasingly alarmed by Soviet attempts to exploit the Olympic Movement in the early 1950s, and responded to this challenge aggressively. Cold War Game chronicles that response and shows that it was not a replication of the state-directed Soviet sports system, but wa...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Rider, Toby C. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2016
Series:Sport and society.
Subjects:
Olympics > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Sports > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Sports and state > United States > History > 20th century.
Sports > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Cold War > Social aspects > United States.
Propaganda, Anti-communist > United States > History > 20th century.
National characteristics, American > History > 20th century.
United States > Foreign relations > Soviet Union.
Soviet Union > Foreign relations > United States.
United States > Politics and government > 1945-1989.
United States > Social conditions > 1945-
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The Cold War, propaganda and the state-private network
  • The United States, the Soviet Union and the Olympic Games
  • A campaign of truth
  • The Union of Free Eastern European Sportsmen
  • A new Olympic challenge
  • Sports Illustrated and the Melbourne defection
  • Symbols of freedom
  • Operation Rome.

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