6. Russian Fever Pitch: Global Fandom, Youth Culture, and the Public Sphere in the Late Soviet Union

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Explaining Cold War Sport 1
5. Part I: The United States
6. 1. In the “Twilight Warzone”: Overt and Covert Dimensions of the US Sports Offensive 29
7. 2. “No Quarrel with Them Vietcong”: Muhammad Ali’s Cold War 42
8. Part II: The Soviet Union
9. 3. Breaking the Ice: Alexei Kosygin and the Secret Background of the 1972 Hockey Summit Series 59
10. 4. Action in the Era of Stagnation: Leonid Brezhnev and the Soviet Olympic Dream 73
11. 5. Soccer Artistry and the Secret Police: Georgian Football in the Multiethnic Soviet Empire 85
12. 6. Russian Fever Pitch: Global Fandom, Youth Culture, and the Public Sphere in the Late Soviet Union 99
13. Part III: German Democratic Republic
14. 7. Eulogy to Theft: Berliner FC Dynamo, East German Football, and the End of Communism 113
15. 8. Sports, Politics, and “Wild Doping” in the East German Sporting “Miracle” 126
16. 9. “The Most Beautiful Face of Socialism”: Katarina Witt and the Sexual Politics of Sport in the Cold War 143
17. Part IV: Asia
18. 10. Learning from the Soviet Big Brother: The Early Years of Sport in the People’s Republic of China 163
19. 11. “The Communist Bandits Have Been Repudiated”: Cold War–Era Sport in Taiwan 175
20. 12. New Regional Order: Sport, Cold War Culture, and the Making of Southeast Asia 189
21. Part V: The Postcolonial
22. 13. Negotiating Colonial Repression: African Footballers in Salazar’s Portugal 207
23. 14. Deflected Confrontations: Cold War Baseball in the Caribbean 223
24. 15. Ambivalent Solidarities: Cultural Diplomacy, Women, and South-South Cooperation at the 1950s Pan American Games 239
25. Notes 255
26. Contributors 315
27. Index 319