Download or read book Olympic Moscow written by Georgiĭ Drozdov and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boycott written by Tom Caraccioli and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a thorough exploration of the political climate of the time and the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan, this book describes the repercussions of Jimmy Carter's American boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow. Despite missing the games they had trained relentlessly to compete in, many U.S. athletes went on to achieve remarkable successes in sports and overcame the bitter disappointment of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity dashed by geopolitics.
Download or read book Olympic Sports and Propaganda Games written by Barukh Ḥazan and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olympische-Spiele, Moskau, Politik, Boykott, UdSSR.
Download or read book Olympic Moscow written by Boris Bazunov and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Olympic Games the Soviet Sports Bureaucracy and the Cold War written by Jenifer Parks and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Olympic Games 1980 written by Michael Morris Baron Killanin and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features summaries of each Olympics since 1896, descriptions of individual sports, biographical sketches of famous athletes and organizers, and information on the ancient games and the history and rules of the IOC.
Download or read book Olympic Moscow written by Boris Anatol'evič Bazunov and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dropping the Torch written by Nicholas Evan Sarantakes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War offers a diplomatic history of the 1980 Olympic boycott. Broad in its focus, it looks at events in Washington, D.C., as well as the opposition to the boycott and how this attempted embargo affected the athletic contests in Moscow. Jimmy Carter based his foreign policy on assumptions that had fundamental flaws and reflected a superficial familiarity with the Olympic movement. These basic mistakes led to a campaign that failed to meet its basic mission objectives but did manage to insult the Soviets just enough to destroy détente and restart the Cold War. The book also includes a military history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which provoked the boycott, and an examination of the boycott's impact four years later at the Los Angeles Olympics, where the Soviet Union retaliated with its own boycott.
Download or read book Olympic Sports and Propaganda Games written by Barukh Ḥazan and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olympische-Spiele, Moskau, Politik, Boykott, UdSSR.
Download or read book A Political History Of The Olympic Games written by David B Kanin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The turmoil surrounding the 1980 Olympic Games, says the author, was nothing new--it was merely the most recent, and most complex, manifestation of the political content of modern sport. Despite the mythology perpetrated by Olympic publicists, the modern Olympic Games were founded with expressly political goals in mind and continue to thrive on tie
Download or read book The 1980 Moscow Olympics written by Hans Joachim Maître and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The XXII Summer Olympic Games Moscow 1980 written by Gale Brennan and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Political Olympics written by Derick Hulme and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1990-12-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an international arena where the utility of military force may be declining, statesmen are inclined to search for alternative means of pursuing national policy. The manipulation of international sport is one such means. This book examines the 1980 United States boycott of the Olympic Games in order to assess the desirability and effectiveness of using international sport as a political instrument. Derick L. Hulme, Jr. reveals the pitfalls as well as the opportunities of such diplomacy by using the 1980 Olympic boycott as a framework. Concluding that the boycott was both a success and a failure, Hulme challenges generally accepted views of employing sport as a political instrument. The book points out that while the boycott succeeded in inflicting significant costs upon the Soviet Union for its invasion of Afghanistan, the White House was unable to enlist Western European support, reinforcing the perception that the leadership capabilities of the post-Vietnam United States were in decline. The book offers comprehensive coverage, from both a descriptive and analytical viewpoint, of the events in 1980 surrounding the decision to boycott. Hulme examines this decision as well as the domestic and international campaigns to rally support for President Carter's initiative. This provides a foundation upon which to critically assess the boycott effort. Finally, the book evaluates the relevance of the 1980 boycott to the emergence of international political sport as a significant policy alternative. Students and scholars of international diplomacy as well as anyone interested in the Olympic Games as a diplomatic tool, will find The Political Olympics a valuable resource.
Download or read book Showdown in Moscow the Olympic Quests of Coe and Ovett written by Hugh Shields and published by Fastprint Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of two of the world's greatest ever milers, Seb Coe and Steve Ovett. Before the Moscow Olympics, Coe and Ovett had barely raced each other. They had, however, established impressive race credentials and traded world records. So when the
Download or read book The 1980 Olympics Handbook written by Norman Giller and published by Holt McDougal. This book was released on 1980 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Olympic Moscow written by Boris Anatol'evič forme avant 2007 Bazunov and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
