Sport and International Politics : Impact of Facism and Communism on Sport (Hardcover)

Introduction - Jim Riordan. Sport - a means of national representation - Pierre Arnaud. Sport and international relations before 1914 - Pierre Arnaud. The Nazi Olympics and the American boycott controversy - Allen Guttmann. The Foreign Office and the Football Association: British sport and appeasement 1935-1938 - Richard Holt. The sports policy of the Soviet Union 1917-1941 - James Riordan. The role of sport in German international politics, 1918-1945 - Arnd Kruger. Spanish sports policy in Republican and Fascist Spain - Teresa Gonzalez Aja. French sport and the emergence of authoritarian regimes, 1919-1939 - Pierre Arnaud. Italian sport and international relations under Fascism - Angela Teja. The Belgian Catholic gymnastic movement in its international context, 1908-1940 - Jan Tollener. Worker sport :the uneasy relationship between Soviet sport and worker and bourgeois sport, 1920-1937 - Andre Gounot. Interwar sport and interwar relations: some conclusions - Richard Holt.