冷战与奥林匹克——读《冷战运动会:宣传、奥林匹克和美国外交政策》

Cold War and the Olympics-Reading"Cold War Games:Propaganda,the Olympics,and U.S.Foreign Policy"

冷战作为20世纪后半期影响人类进程的重要历史事件,对国际体育事业发展产生深远影响。随着奥运会国际影响力的提升,美苏双方都将奥运会看成宣传各自社会制度优越性的舞台。托比·莱德(Toby C.Rider)在其专著《冷战运动会:宣传、奥林匹克和美国外交政策》(Cold War Games:Propaganda,the Olympics,and U.S.Foreign Policy)(以下简称《冷战运动会》)中,揭示美国政府与私人机构为履行冷战职责,利用奥运会与苏联展开针锋相对的宣传。该书从研究材料、研究视角、研究内容上,尚均实现学术突破,成为体育学与历史学的跨学科研究典范。通过对该著作进行深入解析,为未来冷战与体育相关主题研究提供借鉴。

As an important historical event affecting the human process in the second half of the 20 th century,the Cold War had a profound impact on the development of international sports.As the international influence of the Olympic Games increased,both the United States and the Soviet Union regarded the Olympic Games as a stage to promote the superiority of their respective social systems.Toby C.Rider reveals in his"Cold War Games:Propaganda,the Olympics,and US Foreign Policy"(hereafter"Cold War Games")that the U.S.government and private institutions used the Olympics to launch tit-for-tat propaganda against the Soviet Union in order to fulfill their Cold War responsibilities.The book has achieved academic breakthroughs in terms of research materials,research perspectives,and research content,and has become a model for interdisciplinary research in sports and history.An in-depth analysis of this workcan provide reference for future research on topics related to the Cold War and sports.