Kooperacja w sporcie wyczynowym w krajach bloku wschodniego na przykładzie kontaktów polsko-rumuńskich (1948–1953)
Cooperation in competitive sport in the Eastern Bloc – an example of Polish-Romanian contacts (1948–1953)

Summary/Abstract: Polish-Romanian sports contacts after WWII have not attracted much attention on the part of academics. This article includes an analysis of the following (research) issues: 1) organizational, institutional and ideological changes in sport in Poland and the Eastern Bloc countries after WWII; 2) implementation of the Soviet model of organising sport and physical culture in the Eastern Bloc; 3) Polish – Romanian sports contacts in 1948–1953; 4) the ideological, propaganda-related, institutional and purely sport-related dimension of PolishRomanian sports contacts; 5) the successes of Polish and Romanian sports federations in 1948–1953; 6) the difficulties and barriers to sports cooperation. Polish-Romanian sports contacts in the time of Stalinism were never intense; only after 1956 did Romania become one of Poland’s most important partners in international sports relations.

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