Cold War Games : Propaganda, the Olympics, and U.S. Foreign Policy

Cold War Games : Propaganda, the Olympics, and U.S. Foreign Policy by Toby C Rider

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Author: Toby C Rider
Page Count: 288 pages
Published Date: 30 May 2016
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication Country: Baltimore, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780252081699
File size: 49 Mb
Download Link: Cold War Games Propaganda, the Olympics, and U.S. Foreign Policy
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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 US 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 A(c)migrA(c) organizations bent on liberating their home countries from Soviet control. At the same time, the United States appropriated Olympic host cities to hype the American economic and political system while, behind the scenes, 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.

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