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Książka Cold War Olympics Harry Blutstein

Cold War Olympics

A New Battlefront in Psychological Warfare, 1948-1956

Autor: Harry Blutstein
Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Miękka
Wydawca: McFarland & Co Inc
Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy
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The political tension of the Cold War bled into the Olympic Games when each side engaged in psychol...

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Autor
Harry Blutstein
Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Miękka
Data wydania
2021
strony
277
EAN
9781476686875
ISBN
1476686874
Enbook ID
36924680
Wydawca
McFarland & Co Inc
Waga
360
Wymiary
224 x 151 x 25

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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.

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