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Table of 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.

Contributors:

Edelman, Robert, 1945- , editor

Young, Christopher, 1967- , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Whole world was watching (Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2019 — ISBN 9781503611016; LCCN 2019014693)

Related Series:

Cold War International History Project series

Subjects:

Sports — Political aspects — History — 20th century

Sports and state — History — 20th century

Cold War — Influence

World politics — 1945-1989

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

GV706.35 .W48 2019eb

ISBNs:

9781503611016 (electronic bk.)
1503611019 (electronic bk.)
9781503610187 [Invalid]
1503610187 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1246431091

Other Control Numbers:

EBC5928265 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp300879920