M. Dennis, J. Grix

Sport Under Communism

Behind the East German 'Miracle'

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first in-depth exploration of why East Germany was, for two decades, one of the three most successful nations in both the Summer and Winter Olympics. Based on original Stasi and Communist Party archival sources, the book evaluates the significant factors behind the GDR's rise to sporting supremacy, notably doping, intensive training regimes, specialist sport schools, heavy investment by the state in elite sport, and the comprehensive guarding of top-level sport by the Stasi. Thisbook reveals how the central elite sports system was beset by internal tensions and disputes, by the personal ambitions of top Communist officials and by local and regional interests, and outlines how this system offers a model for elite sport today.

Produktdetails

• Global Culture and Sport Series
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-22784-2
• 2012
• Seitenzahl: 261
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 146mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9780230227842
• ISBN-10: 0230227848
• Artikelnr.: 34674008

Autorenporträt

MIKE DENNIS Professor of Modern German History at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. He has specialized in the history of East German Communism and sport and among his major publications are The Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic 1945-1990, The Stasi: Myth and Reality, Deutschland 1945-1990 (with J. D. Steinert), and State and Minorities in Communist East Germany (with N. Laporte). JONATHAN GRIXSenior Lecturer in Sports Politics and Policy at the University of Birmingham, UK. Hehas published widely on East Germany, research methodology and sports-related themes, including The Role of the Masses in the Collapse of the GDR and Foundations of Research.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction: Contestation in the East German Sport 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 Bibliography Index

Rezensionen

"Dennis and Grix have provided us with the most authoritative English-language account of sport in the GDR to date, and it is to be hoped that it will appear in a paperback version so that it can reach as wide a readership as possible." - International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics

"Dennis and Grix have produced a first concise and compelling English-language summary on the vast research done on GDR sport. The book will surely prove valuable for teaching the subject" - German Historical Institute