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Sport under Communism : behind the East German "miracle"

Title
Sport under Communism : behind the East German "miracle" / Mike Dennis, Jonathan Grix.
Author
Dennis, Mike, 1940-
Publication
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

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Grix, Jonathan.
Description
xiv, 261 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Global culture and sport
Uniform Title
Global culture and sport.
Subject
  • Sports and state > Germany (East)
  • Sports > Germany (East)
  • Socialism and sports > Germany (East)
  • SPORTS & RECREATION / Olympics
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism
  • SPORTS & RECREATION / Sociology of Sports
  • SPORTS & RECREATION / Business Aspects
  • HISTORY / Europe / Germany
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Contestation in the East German sports system -- The political use of sport -- The development of East German elite sport -- Finding and promoting young sporting talent -- Drugs in elite sport in the German "doping" Republic -- Steroids and justice -- Football: East German Sport's 'problem child' -- The 'flipside' of the sports 'miracle': declining mass sport provision ; The East German model in comparative context -- Key themes and findings.
ISBN
  • 9780230227842 (hardback)
  • 0230227848 (hardback)
LCCN
  • 2012004842
  • 99953594042
OCLC
  • ocn779529923
  • 779529923
  • SCSB-5686063
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Columbia University Libraries