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Cold War Games

- Propaganda, the Olympics, and U.S. Foreign Policy
Af: Toby C Rider Engelsk Paperback

Cold War Games

- Propaganda, the Olympics, and U.S. Foreign Policy
Af: Toby C Rider Engelsk Paperback
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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.

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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.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 256
ISBN-13: 9780252081699
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0252081692
Kategori: United States of America, USA
Udg. Dato: 26 apr 2016
Længde: 20mm
Bredde: 153mm
Højde: 230mm
Forlag: University of Illinois Press
Oplagsdato: 26 apr 2016
Forfatter(e): Toby C Rider
Forfatter(e) Toby C Rider

Kategori United States of America, USA

ISBN-13 9780252081699

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 256

Udgave

Længde 20mm

Bredde 153mm

Højde 230mm

Udg. Dato 26 apr 2016

Oplagsdato 26 apr 2016

Forlag University of Illinois Press