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Stejarel Olaru Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police (arrière)
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Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
- Book Title
- Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police : a Cold War Escape
- Publication Name
- Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police
- Title
- Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police
- Subtitle
- A Cold War Escape
- Translator
- Alistair Ian Blyth
- Contributor
- Alistair Ian Blyth (Translated by)
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 135032129X
- EAN
- 9781350321298
- ISBN
- 9781350321298
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing, Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
- Genre
- Sports & Recreation, History
- Topic
- Europe / Eastern, Modern / 20th Century, General, History
- Release Date
- 06/04/2023
- Release Year
- 2023
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Item Length
- 9.5in
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Item Width
- 6.5in
- Item Weight
- 22.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 312 Pages
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Product Information
Nadia Comaneci is the Romanian child prodigy and global gymnastics star who ultimately fled her homeland and the brutal oppression of a communist regime. At the age of just 14, Nadia became the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games and went on to collect three gold medals in performances which influenced the sport for generations to come, cementing Nadia's place as a sporting legend. However, as the communist authorities in Romania sought an iron grip over its highest-profile athletes, Nadia and her trainers were subjected to surveillance from the Securitate, the Romanian secret police. Drawing on 25,000 secret police archive pages, countless secret service intelligence documents, and numerous wiretap recordings, this book tells the compelling story of Nadia's life and career using unique insights from the communist dictatorship which monitored her. Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police explores Nadia's complex and combustible relationship with her sometimes abusive coaches, Béla and Marta Károlyi, figures who would later become embroiled in the USA Gymnastics scandal. The book addresses Nadia's mental struggles and 1978 suicide attempt, and her remarkable resurgence to gold at the Moscow Olympics in 1980. It explores the impact of Nadia's subsequent withdrawal from international activity and reflects on burning questions surrounding the heart-stopping, border-hopping defection to the United States that she successfully undertook in November 1989. Was the defection organised by CIA agents? Was it arranged on the orders of President George Bush himself? Or was Nadia aided and abetted by some of the very Securitate officers who were meant to be watching the communist world's most lauded sporting icon? What is revealed is a thrilling tale of endurance and escape, in which one of the world's greatest gymnasts risked everything for freedom.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing, Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
ISBN-10
135032129x
ISBN-13
9781350321298
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6057271446
Product Key Features
Book Title
Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police : a Cold War Escape
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Europe / Eastern, Modern / 20th Century, General, History
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Sports & Recreation, History
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6.5in
Item Weight
22.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Gv460.2.C65
Reviews
Stejarel Olaru illustrates the extent to which the Ceausescu regime would go to secure Olympic success: it created a massive system of surveillance and an extensive network of informers and agents to control a group of young gymnasts and their ambitious, irascible coaching couple, Bela and Marta Karolyi. Olaru provides important insight into the machinations of Romania's Securitate and how national prestige triumphed over protecting teenage protégés from physical, emotional, and verbal abuse, "Stejarel Olaru illustrates the extent to which the Ceaucescu regime would go to secure Olympic success: it created a massive system of surveillance and an extensive network of informers and agents to control a group of young gymnasts and their ambitious, irascible coaching couple, Bela and Marta Karolyi. Olaru provides important insight into the machinations of Romania's Securitate and how national prestige triumphed over protecting teenage protégés from physical, emotional, and verbal abuse" -- Victoria Harms, Assistant Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University, USA "A compelling examination of the public and private personae of Nadia that assesses the price of fame under a dictatorship. At the same time, Olaru's study exposes the intrusion of the state into the lives of citizens in Ceau?escu's Romania." -- Dennis Deletant, Emeritus Professor of Romanian Studies, The School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London, "Stejarel Olaru illustrates the extent to which the Ceaucescu regime would go to secure Olympic success: it created a massive system of surveillance and an extensive network of informers and agents to control a group of young gymnasts and their ambitious, irascible coaching couple, Bela and Marta Karolyi. Olaru provides important insight into the machinations of Romania's Securitate and how national prestige triumphed over protecting teenage protégés from physical, emotional, and verbal abuse" -- Victoria Harms, Assistant Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University, USA, "As an insight into the tensions between Comaneci, her coaches and the Communist regime, as well as tensions between Romanian and Soviet gymnastics ... Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police is captivating." --Diana Georgescu, Times Literary Supplement "Stejarel Olaru illustrates the extent to which the Ceaucescu regime would go to secure Olympic success: it created a massive system of surveillance and an extensive network of informers and agents to control a group of young gymnasts and their ambitious, irascible coaching couple, Bela and Marta Karolyi. Olaru provides important insight into the machinations of Romania's Securitate and how national prestige triumphed over protecting teenage protégés from physical, emotional, and verbal abuse." -- Victoria Harms, Assistant Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University, USA "A compelling examination of the public and private personae of Nadia that assesses the price of fame under a dictatorship. At the same time, Olaru's study exposes the intrusion of the state into the lives of citizens in Ceausescu's Romania." -- Dennis Deletant, Emeritus Professor of Romanian Studies, The School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London "Starting from the extraordinary story of Nadia Comaneci, the book analyzes the unseen side of the sports performances of female artistic gymnastics and the relationship between sports and politics during the communist regime in Romania. Coaches, athletes, officials, and political decision-makers were caught in a network of complicated relationships that are revealed by the author through the secret police archive." -- Simona Petracovschi, Professor at Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, West University of Timisoara, Romania "Thoroughly researched." -- OUTinPerth, "Stejarel Olaru illustrates the extent to which the Ceaucescu regime would go to secure Olympic success: it created a massive system of surveillance and an extensive network of informers and agents to control a group of young gymnasts and their ambitious, irascible coaching couple, Bela and Marta Karolyi. Olaru provides important insight into the machinations of Romania's Securitate and how national prestige triumphed over protecting teenage protégés from physical, emotional, and verbal abuse." -- Victoria Harms, Assistant Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University, USA "A compelling examination of the public and private personae of Nadia that assesses the price of fame under a dictatorship. At the same time, Olaru's study exposes the intrusion of the state into the lives of citizens in Ceausescu's Romania." -- Dennis Deletant, Emeritus Professor of Romanian Studies, The School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London "Starting from the extraordinary story of Nadia Comaneci, the book analyzes the unseen side of the sports performances of female artistic gymnastics and the relationship between sports and politics during the communist regime in Romania. Coaches, athletes, officials, and political decision-makers were caught in a network of complicated relationships that are revealed by the author through the secret police archive." -- Simona Petracovschi, Professor at Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, West University of Timisoara, Romania, "Stejarel Olaru illustrates the extent to which the Ceau?escu regime would go to secure Olympic success: it created a massive system of surveillance and an extensive network of informers and agents to control a group of young gymnasts and their ambitious, irascible coaching couple, Bela and Marta Karolyi. Olaru provides important insight into the machinations of Romania's Securitate and how national prestige triumphed over protecting teenage protégés from physical, emotional, and verbal abuse" -- Victoria Harms, Assistant Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University, USA, "Stejarel Olaru illustrates the extent to which the Ceausescu regime would go to secure Olympic success: it created a massive system of surveillance and an extensive network of informers and agents to control a group of young gymnasts and their ambitious, irascible coaching couple, Bela and Marta Karolyi. Olaru provides important insight into the machinations of Romania's Securitate and how national prestige triumphed over protecting teenage protégés from physical, emotional, and verbal abuse" -- Victoria Harms, Assistant Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University, USA, "Stejarel Olaru illustrates the extent to which the Ceaucescu regime would go to secure Olympic success: it created a massive system of surveillance and an extensive network of informers and agents to control a group of young gymnasts and their ambitious, irascible coaching couple, Bela and Marta Karolyi. Olaru provides important insight into the machinations of Romania's Securitate and how national prestige triumphed over protecting teenage protégés from physical, emotional, and verbal abuse" -- Victoria Harms, Assistant Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University, USA "A compelling examination of the public and private personae of Nadia that assesses the price of fame under a dictatorship. At the same time, Olaru's study exposes the intrusion of the state into the lives of citizens in Ceau?escu's Romania." -- Dennis Deletant, Emeritus Professor of Romanian Studies, The School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London "Starting from the extraordinary story of Nadia Comaneci, the book analyzes the unseen side of the sports performances of female artistic gymnastics and the relationship between sports and politics during the communist regime in Romania. Coaches, athletes, officials, and political decision-makers were caught in a network of complicated relationships that are revealed by the author through the secret police archive." -- Simona Petracovschi, Professor at Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Table of Content
List of illustrations List of abbreviations Explanatory note from the author Acknowledgements 1. Salto in the dark 2. The great dance 3. Reflected in the mirror of power: From Béla, Géza and Nadia to 'Katona', 'Nelu' and 'Corina' 4. 'Tu sei migliora di tutte' 5. The rocky road to supremacy 6. The nineteen-eighties 7. A movie ending Notes Index, List of illustrationsList of abbreviationsExplanatory note from the authorAcknowledgements1. Salto in the dark2. The great dance3. Reflected in the mirror of power: From Béla, Géza and Nadia to 'Katona', 'Nelu' and 'Corina'4. 'Tu sei migliora di tutte'5. The rocky road to supremacy6. The nineteen-eighties7. A movie endingNotesIndex
Lccn
2023-281180
Dewey Decimal
796.44092
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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