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Cold War Games
2016
Overview
It is the early Cold War. The Soviet Union appears to be in
irresistible ascendance and moves to exploit the Olympic Games as a
vehicle for promoting international communism. In response, the
United States conceives a subtle, far-reaching psychological
warfare campaign to blunt the Soviet advance.
Drawing on newly declassified materials and archives, Toby C.
Rider chronicles how the U.S. government used the Olympics to
promote democracy and its own policy aims during the tense early
phase of the Cold War. Rider shows how the government, though
constrained by traditions against interference in the Games, eluded
detection by cooperating with private groups, including secretly
funded émigré organizations bent on liberating their home countries
from Soviet control. At the same time, the United States utilized
Olympic host cities as launching pads for hyping the American
economic and political system. Behind the scenes, meanwhile, the
government attempted clandestine manipulation of the International
Olympic Committee. Rider also details the campaigns that sent
propaganda materials around the globe as the United States
mobilized culture in general, and sports in particular, to fight
the communist threat.
Deeply researched and boldly argued, Cold War Games
recovers an essential chapter in Olympic and postwar history.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Subject
/ BISAC: HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
/ Cold War
/ Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States
/ HISTORY
/ National characteristics, American
/ National characteristics, American -- History -- 20th century
/ Olympics
/ Olympics -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
/ Propaganda, Anti-communist -- United States -- History -- 20th century
/ Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States
/ Sports
/ SPORTS & RECREATION / Olympics
/ Sports -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
/ Sports -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
/ Sports and state -- United States -- History -- 20th century
/ United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union
ISBN
0252040236, 9780252040238, 0252081692, 9780252081699, 9780252098451, 0252098455
