Cold war games : propaganda, the Olympics, and U.S. foreign policy

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Label

Cold war games : propaganda, the Olympics, and U.S. foreign policy

Title remainder

propaganda, the Olympics, and U.S. foreign policy

Statement of responsibility

Toby C. Rider

Creator

• Rider, Toby C

Subject

• National characteristics, American -- History -- 20th century
• Olympics -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Propaganda, Anti-communist -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Since 1900
• Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States
• 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
• United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989
• United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
• Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States

Language

eng

Summary

"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 was instigated through covert psychological warfare operations and overt propaganda distributed to the "free world." In the lead up to and during each Olympic festival throughout this period, the U.S. sent waves of propaganda material across the globe to advocate the American way of life and to denounce communism. It used the Olympic host cities as venues to advertise the American economic and political system; it also attempted to manipulate the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in clandestine ways. Cold War Games describes the emergence of government fears about communist sport in the late 1940s and, crucially, how these fears were channeled into the Olympic Games starting in 1950. It concludes its analysis in 1960 at the end point, in many ways, of covert government initiatives at Olympic festivals. Cold War Games situates sport in the larger discussion of how America was committed to a "total" Cold War by demonstrating that the Olympics Games was embroiled in the U.S. government's own cultural offensive"--

Member of

• Sport and society

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

796.48

Index

index present

LC call number

GV721.5

LC item number

.R54 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Sport and society