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Cold War Games : Propaganda, the Olympics, and U.S. Foreign Policy /
"The U.S. Government became increasingly alarmed by Soviet attempts to exploit the Olympic Movement in the early 1950s, and responded to this challenge aggressively. Cold War Game chronicles that response and shows that it was not a replication of the state-directed Soviet sports system, but wa...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The Cold War, propaganda and the state-private network
- The United States, the Soviet Union and the Olympic Games
- A campaign of truth
- The Union of Free Eastern European Sportsmen
- A new Olympic challenge
- Sports Illustrated and the Melbourne defection
- Symbols of freedom
- Operation Rome.