During the Cold War, sport was used as a means of diplomacy between the two blocks, allowing exchanges between East and West across the Iron Curtain. Focusing on Europe, this book offers new insights in sports history, a growing research field, which up to now offered relatively few studies on the Cold War era.
Philippe Vonnard, University of Lausanne; Nicola Sbetti, University of Bologna; Grégory Quin, University of Lausanne