Description: The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, and the Cold War by Jenifer Parks Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description This study examines the Soviet bureaucracy responsible for overseeing Olympic sport during the Cold War. It analyzes how sport administrators used political savvy and professional pragmatism alongside ideological drive to expand participation, maximize chances of success, and achieve Soviet political and diplomatic aims. Publisher Description 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 USSRs 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 Committees 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. Author Biography Jenifer Parks is associate professor of history at Rocky Mountain College. Details ISBN 1498541186 ISBN-13 9781498541183 Title The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, and the Cold War Author Jenifer Parks Format Hardcover Year 2016 Pages 232 Publisher Lexington Books GE_Item_ID:101475335; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
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ISBN-13: 9781498541183
Book Title: The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, and the Cold Wa
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
