The Olympic Games, the Soviet sports bureaucracy, and the Cold War
Subtitle: red sport, red tape
By: Jenifer Parks
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781498541183
Subjects: Olympic Games (22nd : 1980 : Moscow, Russia); Sports and state; Sports administration; Orgkomitet "Olimpiada-80."; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Verbal gymnastics : the Soviet Union enters the Olympic movement; title: Leveling the playing field : Soviet sports administrators abroad and international sports exchanges under Khrushchev, 1953-1964; title: Getting things done : Soviet bureaucrats' expanding role in the IOC and Moscow's bid to host the games; title: "An exemplary communist city" : preparing Moscow for the 1980 Olympic Games; title: A job well done? : welcoming the world to the 1980 Moscow Olympiad.