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The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, and the Cold War : Red Sport, Red Tape by Jenifer Parks is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, and the Cold War : Red Sport, Red Tape about?
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 through the 1980 Games held in Moscow, this book argues that behind the high-profile performances of Soviet elite athletes, a legion of sports administrators worked within international sports organizations and the Soviet party-state to i
Who reads The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, and the Cold War : Red Sport, Red Tape?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jenifer Parks
- Publisher
- Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781498541183
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Political Science, Sports
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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