The Whole World Was Watching

Robert Edelman is Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. Christopher Young is Professor of Modern and Medieval German Studies and Head of the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Cambridge.

Introduction: Explaining Cold War Sport

 —Robert Edelman and Christopher Young

1. The State-Private Network: Overt and Covert US Intervention in Early Cold War Sport

 —Toby C. Rider

2. "No Quarrel with Them Vietcong": Muhammad Ali's Cold War

 —Elliott J. Gorn

3. Breaking the Ice: Alexei Kosygin and the Secret Background of the 1972 Hockey Summit Series

 —James Hershberg

4. Action in the Era of Stagnation: Leonid Brezhnev and the Soviet Olympic Dream

 —Mikhail Prozumenshikov

5. Soccer Artistry and the Secret Police: Georgian Football in the Multiethnic Soviet Empire

 —Erik R. Scott

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

 —Manfred Zeller

7. Eulogy to Theft: Berliner FC Dynamo, East German Football, and the End of Communism

 —Alan McDougall

8. Sports, Politics, and "Wild Doping" in the East German Sporting "Miracle"

 —Mike Dennis

9. "The Most Beautiful Face of Socialism": Katarina Witt and the Sexual Politics of Sport in the Cold War

 —Annette F. Timm

10. Learning from the Soviet Big Brother: The Early Years of Sport in the People's Republic of China

 —Amanda Shuman

11. "The Communist Bandits Have Been Repudiated": Cold War–Era Sport in Taiwan

 —Andrew D. Morris

12. New Regional Order: Sport, Cold War Culture, and the Making of Southeast Asia

 —Simon Creak

13. Negotiating Colonial Repression: African Footballers in Salazar's Portugal

 —Todd Cleveland

14. Deflected Confrontations: Cold War Baseball in the Caribbean

 —Rob Ruck

15. Ambivalent Solidarities: Cultural Diplomacy, Women, and South-South Cooperation at the 1950s Pan American Games

 —Brenda Elsey