Hungary as a sport superpower : football from Horthy to Kádár (1924-1960) /
What role has football (and sport in general) played in Hungarian foreign policy? Was there a continuity between the inter-war period and communism? Are foreign politics and sporting diplomacy synonyms? This book tries to provide answers to these questions through a careful examination of documents...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston :
Walter de Gruyter GmbH,
[2024]
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| Series: | RERIS studies in international sport relations ;
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| Summary: | What role has football (and sport in general) played in Hungarian foreign policy? Was there a continuity between the inter-war period and communism? Are foreign politics and sporting diplomacy synonyms? This book tries to provide answers to these questions through a careful examination of documents of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry and Hungarian newspapers, supplemented by documentation from several European countries. Through Hungarian football, the author traces a history of Hungary during the Age of Extremes with a special focus on the period during which sport played a particular role in Hungarian foreign policy: from 1924, the date of the Paris Olympics, the first time the country competed after World War I, to 1960, date of the Olympics of Rome. The result is a study from a particularly original perspective, highlighting, first and foremost, the transnational dimension of Hungarian football. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 volume). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783111137414 (electronic bk.) 3111137414 9783111137599 3111137597 |