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• Title:
  Sport as a Tool for Strengthening a Political Alliance: The Case of the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War
• Creator:
  Kobierecki, Michał Marcin
• Contributor:
  Uniwersytet Łódzki;
  Michał Kobierecki is employed at the Department of Political Theory and Thought at the Faculty if International and Political Studies. In his research he focusses on issues of politics on sport and sports diplomacy.;
  mkobierecki@uni.lodz.pl
• Description:
  The aim of the article is to investigate sports exchanges within the Eastern Bloc from the perspective of their diplomatic significance. Such exchanges were intended to strengthen the alliance by generating friendship between the societies of its member states. This objective was not fulfilled, and positive sports diplomacy between the communist states failed. The article proves the hypothesis that the use of sport to strengthen the Eastern Bloc should not be associated exclusively with the interests of the Soviet Union, but with those of the communist governments of the allied countries in general. The investigation also sought the reasons for the failure of the whole initiative.;
  The text is based on research financed by the National Science Centre, Poland, within project no. 2015/19/D/HS5/00513.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Michał Marcin Kobierecki, PISM
• Date:
  2016.10.26;
  2016.10.01
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  PISM
• Relation:
  The Polish Quarterly of International Affairs;;
  2
• Subject:
  sport diplomacy;
  Cold War;
  Eastern Bloc;
  Sport and politics
• Identifier:
  1230-4999;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/19988
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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• Type:
  image