Sport under Communism

1. Introduction: Contestation in the East German Sports System
Mike Dennis, Jonathan Grix

2. The Political Use of Sport
Mike Dennis, Jonathan Grix

3. The Development of East German Elite Sport
Mike Dennis, Jonathan Grix

4. Finding and Promoting Young Sporting Talent
Mike Dennis, Jonathan Grix

5. Drugs in Elite Sport in the German ‘Doping’ Republic
Mike Dennis, Jonathan Grix

6. Steroids and Justice
Mike Dennis, Jonathan Grix

7. Football — East German Sport’s ‘Problem Child’
Mike Dennis, Jonathan Grix

8. The ‘Flipside’ of the Sports ‘Miracle’: Declining Mass Sport Provision
Mike Dennis, Jonathan Grix

9. The East German Model in Comparative Context
Mike Dennis, Jonathan Grix

10. Key Themes and Findings
Mike Dennis, Jonathan Grix

Nyckelord: Social Sciences, Political Sociology, History of Germany and Central Europe, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Political Theory, Popular Science in Sports, Social History