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The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, and the Cold War - Red Sport, Red Tape (Hardcover)
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The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, and the Cold War - Red Sport, Red Tape (Hardcover)
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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.
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