East Plays West

Introduction 1. Totalitarian Regimes and Cold War Sport: Steroid âbermenschenâ and âBall Bearing Femalesâ 2. Verbal Gymnastics: The Soviet Sports Administration and the Decision to Enter the Olympic Games, 1947-1952 3. Cold War Expatriot Sport: Symbolic Resistance - and International Response - in Hungarian Water Polo at the Melbourne Olympics, 1956 4. Cold War Football: British-European Encounters in the 1940s and 50s 5. âOscillating Antagonismâ: Soviet-British Athletics Relations, 1945-1960 6. âIf You Want the Girl Next Doorâ¦.â Olympic Sport and the Popular Press in Early Cold War Britain 7. The âMuscle Gapâ: Physical Education and U.S. Fears of a Depleted Masculinity 1954-63 8. Good Versus Evil? Drugs, Sport and the Cold War 9. The Cold War and the (Re) Articulation of Canadian National Identity: The 1972 Canada-USSR Summit Series 10. âOne Day When the Yankeesâ¦.â Cuban Baseball, the United States and the Cold War 11. Playing the âRace Cardâ: US Foreign Policy and the Integration of Sports 12. âMiraculousâ Masculinity Meets Militarization: Narrating the 1980 USSR-US Menâs Olympic Ice Hockey Match and Cold War Politics 13. The Soviet Union and the Olympic Games of 1980 and 1984: Explaining the Boycott to their Own People 14. âSport and Politics Donât Mixâ. China's Relationship with the IOC during the Cold War 15. Sport After the Cold War: Implications for Russia and Eastern Europe 16. Performing Americaâs Past: Cold War Fantasies in a Perpetual State of War 17. âYankee Go Homeâ: Sport and Anti-Americanism in South Korea