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| Introduction |
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1 Sport -- a means of national representation |
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3 | (11) |
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Sport and gymnastics: a cultural problem, a political alternative |
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Effects of context, effects of circumstance |
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5 | (1) |
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6 | (1) |
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Independence of sports powers and political powers |
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7 | (2) |
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Divisions in sports organizations and the problem of citizenship |
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9 | (2) |
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Sporting events and forms of political action |
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11 | (2) |
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13 | (1) |
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2 Sport and international relations before 1918 |
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14 | (17) |
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14 | (4) |
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Moving from a local to a national level |
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The initial stages of the internationalization of sport |
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19 | (3) |
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The first national teams and the first international matches |
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22 | (3) |
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Sport and international relations: teething problems |
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25 | (3) |
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28 | (1) |
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29 | (2) |
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3 The `Nazi Olympics' and the American boycott controversy |
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31 | (20) |
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47 | (4) |
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4 The Foreign Office and the Football Association: British sport and appeasement, 1935-1938 |
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51 | (16) |
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63 | (1) |
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64 | (3) |
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5 The sports policy of the Soviet Union, 1917-1941 |
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67 | (12) |
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Promoting proletarian internationalism, 1917-28 |
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67 | (3) |
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Strengthening the USSR as a nation-state, 1928-39 |
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70 | (2) |
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Promoting good-neighbourly relations |
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72 | (4) |
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Relations with the Axis powers, 1939-41 |
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76 | (1) |
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77 | (1) |
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77 | (2) |
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6 The role of sport in German international politics, 1918-1945 |
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79 | (18) |
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Isolation and international growth |
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80 | (3) |
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83 | (2) |
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A coordinated sports movement |
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85 | (2) |
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87 | (1) |
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88 | (1) |
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89 | (1) |
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International sport during the Second World War |
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90 | (2) |
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92 | (1) |
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93 | (4) |
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7 Spanish sports policy in Republican and Fascist Spain |
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97 | (17) |
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From the First to the Second Republic |
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97 | (7) |
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104 | (8) |
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112 | (2) |
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8 French sport and the emergence of authoritarian regimes, 1919-1939 |
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114 | (33) |
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The stadium: a new battlefield? |
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115 | (1) |
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Sport as an affair of the State |
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116 | (1) |
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The course of action taken by the Department of French Ventures Abroad (SOFE) |
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117 | (1) |
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The main thing is to win! |
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118 | (2) |
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War and peace, suspicion and exclusion |
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120 | (2) |
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The question of Germany or the illusions of pacifism |
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122 | (2) |
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124 | (1) |
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... and events held in occupied territories |
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125 | (1) |
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National prestige and the first incidents |
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126 | (2) |
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The possibility of peace at the Colombes Stadium |
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128 | (3) |
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Games of victory or Games of peace |
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131 | (1) |
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Gently, but not too gently |
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132 | (3) |
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135 | (3) |
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Munich -- a major sporting city |
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138 | (2) |
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140 | (1) |
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141 | (1) |
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142 | (5) |
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9 Italian sport and international relations under fascism |
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147 | (24) |
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The golden age of physical education |
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147 | (2) |
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149 | (1) |
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Rejection of competitive sport |
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150 | (3) |
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153 | (3) |
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156 | (1) |
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157 | (2) |
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159 | (1) |
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160 | (4) |
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New trends in sports policy |
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164 | (2) |
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The final exaltation of political sport |
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166 | (1) |
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167 | (4) |
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10 The Belgian Catholic gymnastic movement in its international context, 1908-1940 |
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171 | (13) |
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Before the First World War |
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172 | (5) |
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Interwar relations with Germany |
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177 | (2) |
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179 | (2) |
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181 | (1) |
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182 | (2) |
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11 Between revolutionary demands and diplomatic necessity: the uneasy relationship between Soviet sport and worker and bourgeois sport in Europe from 1920 to 1937 |
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184 | (26) |
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184 | (1) |
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Training `athletes of the Revolution': the creation of Red Sport International |
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185 | (3) |
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The quest for a coherent policy on sport |
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188 | (2) |
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The relationship with bourgeois sport |
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190 | (4) |
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Relations with the Lucerne Sport International (1925-1927) |
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194 | (2) |
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The USSR in the international network of communist sport |
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196 | (3) |
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1934: a change of direction |
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199 | (2) |
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201 | (2) |
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203 | (1) |
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204 | (6) |
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12 Interwar sport and interwar relations: some conclusions |
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210 | (9) |
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218 | (1) |
| Index |
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