Participant Info
- First Name
- Jenifer
- Last Name
- Parks
- Country
- United States
- State
- MT Montana
- jenifer.parks@rocky.edu
- Affiliation
- Rocky Mountain College
- Website URL
- Keywords
- Russia, former Soviet Union, sport, Olympics, cultural diplomacy, Cold War
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
- Recent Publications
Books
Jenifer Parks, The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, and the Cold War: Red Sport, Red Tape (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2016).
Refereed Journal Articles
“Promoting Authority through Sport by States and Societies of Eastern Europe,” Handbuch der Sportgeschichte Osteuropas, http://www.ios-regensburg.de/service/ios-publikationen/online-publikationen/handbuch-der-sportgeschichte-osteuropas.html (2014).
“‘Nothing but Trouble’: The Soviet Union’s Push to ‘Democratise’ International Sports during the Cold War, 1959-1962,” The International Journal of the History of Sport 30.13 (2013).
Book Chapters
“Welcoming the Third World: Soviet Sports Diplomacy, Developing Nations and the Olympic Games,” in Heather L. Dichter and Andrew L. Johns, eds., Diplomatic Games: Essays on the International History of Sport and Foreign Relations since 1945 (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2014).
“‘Za Druzhbu: Auf die Freundschaft!’ Sowjetisch-Amerikanische Sportbegegnungen in der sowjetischen Sportpresse,” in Evelyn Mertin and Christoph Bertling, eds., Freunde oder Feinde? Sportberichterstattung in Ost und West während des Kalten Krieges (Köln: Gütersloh Medienfabrik Gütersloh, 2013).
“Verbal Gymnastics: Sports, Bureaucracy, and the Soviet Union’s Entrance into the Olympic Games, 1946-1952,” in Stephen Wagg and David Andrews, eds., East Plays West: Sport and the Cold War (London and New York: Routledge, 2006).
Book Reviews
Review of William D. Frank, Everyone to Skis!: Skiing in Russia and the Rise of Soviet Biathlon, Sport History Review 45.2 (2014).
Review of Gold, John R.; Gold, Margaret M., eds., Olympic Cities: Urban Planning, City Agendas and the World’s Games, 1896 to the present. H-Urban, H-Net Reviews. May, 2011. URL: http://www.h net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=30515.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Russia and former Soviet Union
- Expertise by Geography
- Eastern Europe, Russia, Western Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- Modern, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Diplomacy, Politics, Sports