Tag: Mike Dennis
Seminal work on the role and function of sport during the Cold War era
The Whole World Was Watching: Sport in the Cold War, edited by Robert Edelman & Christopher Young (Stanford University Press), examines Cold War rivalries through the lens of sporting activities and competitions across Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the U.S. Our reviewer is historian Kristian Gerner, and he finds that the multifaceted analysis in the book reveals how states as well as individual athletes impacted the development of sport and society in the cold war period.
The GDR recipe for sporting success: Drugs for women and children
The East German sports miracle turned out to be an elaborate hoax. The details of this fantastic enterprise in exposed in a thoroughly researched volume by Mike Dennis and Jonathan Grix, Sports during Communism: Behind the East German ‘Miracle’, which is reviewed by Kristian Gerner.
