Kniha Dropping the Torch Nicholas Evan Sarantakes

Dropping the Torch

Jazyk: Angličtina
Väzba: Pevná
Dostupnosť: Skladom u dodávateľa
Odosielame za 9-15 dní
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Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War offers a diplomatic history...

Informácie o knihe

Jazyk
Angličtina
Väzba
Kniha - Pevná
Vydalo
2010
Stránok
356
EAN
9780521194778
ISBN
0521194776
Enbook ID
04091229
Hmotnosť
690
Rozmery
160 x 242 x 24

Kompletný popis

Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War offers a diplomatic history of the 1980 Olympic boycott. Broad in its focus, it looks at events in Washington, D.C., as well as the opposition to the boycott and how this attempted embargo affected the athletic contests in Moscow. Jimmy Carter based his foreign policy on assumptions that had fundamental flaws and reflected a superficial familiarity with the Olympic movement. These basic mistakes led to a campaign that failed to meet its basic mission objectives but did manage to insult the Soviets just enough to destroy détente and restart the Cold War. The book also includes a military history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which provoked the boycott, and an examination of the boycott's impact four years later at the Los Angeles Olympics, where the Soviet Union retaliated with its own boycott.

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