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The Sochi predicament : contexts, characteristics and challenges of the Olympic Winter Games in 2014 / edited by Bo Petersson and Karina Vamling.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hosting of sporting events--Russia (Federation)--Sochi.
- Hosting of sporting events.
- Olympic Winter Games--(22nd : 2014 : Sochi, Russia).
- Olympic Winter Games.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (268 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- For a variety of political, climatic, ecological, security-related and other reasons, the Russian summer resort of Sochi by the Black Sea would seem a most unlikely candidate for the Olympic Winter Games. Despite this, the Games will be held there in February 2014, and the Russian leaders regard the Games as a highly prestigious project underlining Russia's return to a status of great power in the contemporary world. This book conducts a thorough inventory of the contexts, characteristics and...
- Contents:
- part I. Olympic perspectives
- part II. Identity matters
- part III. Internal order and security
- part IV. Caucasian knots.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 29, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-5445-X
- OCLC:
- 868489022
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