East Plays West: Sport and the Cold War

East plays West Sport and the Cold War
Copyright
Contents
List of contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction: war minus the shooting?
Chapter 1 Totalitarian regimes and Cold War sport: steroid “Übermenschen” and “ball-bearing females”
Chapter 2 Verbal gymnastics: sports, bureacracy, and the Soviet Union’s entrance into the Olympic Games, 1946–1952
Chapter 3 Cold War expatriot sport: 
symbolic resistance and international response in Hungarian water polo at the Melbourne Olympics, 1956
Chapter 4 Cold War football: British–European encounters in the 1940s and 1950s
Chapter 5 “Oscillating antagonism”: Soviet–British athletics relations, 1945–1960
Chapter 6 “If you want the girl next door …”: Olympic sport and the popular press in early Cold War Britain
Chapter 7 The “muscle gap”: physical education and US fears of a depleted masculinity, 1954–1963
Chapter 8 Good versus evil? Drugs, sport and the Cold War
Chapter 9 The Cold War and the (re)articulation of Canadian national identity: the 1972 Canada–USSR Summit Series
Chapter 10 “One day when the Yankees …”: Cuban baseball, the United States and the Cold War
Chapter 11 Playing the “race card”: US foreign policy and the integration of sports
Chapter 12 “Miraculous” masculinity meets militarization: narrating the 1980 USSR–US men’s Olympic ice hockey match and Cold War politics
Chapter 13 The Soviet Union and the 
Olympic Games of 1980 and 1984: explaining the boycotts to their own people
Chapter 14 “Sport and politics don’t mix”: China’s relationship with the IOC during the Cold War
Chapter 15 Sport after the Cold War: implications for Russia and Eastern Europe
Chapter 16 Performing America’s past: Cold War fantasies in a perpetual state of war
Chapter 17 Beyond the stadium and into the street: sport and anti-Americanism in South Korea
Index