Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, and the Cold WarCondition: NewSubtitle: Red Sport, Red TapeISBN-10: 1498541186EAN: 9781498541183ISBN: 9781498541183Publisher: Lexington BooksFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 12/27/2016Description: 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 increase Soviet chances of success and make Soviet representatives a respected voice in international sports. Soviet officials helped expand the Olympic movement, increasing the participation of women, developing nations, and socialist bloc countries, while achieving Soviet political and diplomatic aims. Soviet representatives, over the course of only a few decades, became a dominant and respected voice within international sports circles, actively promoting Olympic ideals abroad even as they transformed those ideals to better align with Soviet goals. In the process, Soviet sports contributed to the evolution of Olympic sport, integrating the Soviet Union into an emerging global culture, and contributing to transformations within the Soviet Union. Back home in the USSR, the Sports Committee's leading personalities represented a new kind of Soviet bureaucrat, who emerged in the late years of Stalinism and contributed to the professionalization of party-state apparatus. Standing at the intersection between state and society, between Soviet political goals and their execution, and between Olympic sport and Communist ideology, mid-level Soviet sports administrators demonstrated ideological drive, political savvy, and professional pragmatism, providing the impetus, expertise, and experience to transform broad ideological constructs into specific policies and procedures in the Soviet Union and realize Soviet propaganda and foreign policy goals in international and Olympic sports.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 240mmItem Length: 158mmItem Width: 20mmItem Weight: 549gAuthor: Jenifer ParksGenre: HistoryTopic: Law & PoliticsRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, and the Cold Wa
Title: The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, and the Cold Wa
Subtitle: Red Sport, Red Tape
ISBN-10: 1498541186
EAN: 9781498541183
ISBN: 9781498541183
Release Date: 12/27/2016
Release Year: 2016
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Topic: Law & Politics
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Olympic Games, the Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, and the Cold War : Red Sport, Red Tape
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Publication Year: 2016
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: World / Russian & Former Soviet Union, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Business Aspects, International Relations / General, Olympics & Paralympics
Item Weight: 19.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Jenifer Parks
Item Length: 9.4 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Sports & Recreation, History
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Hardcover
