@inbook{d81acf65d0344136870bf902544015e6,
title = "Sport Under Communism",
author = "Robert Edelman and Anke Hilbrenner and Susan Brownell",
note = "This article examines sport in the Soviet Union, East Germany, and China. Despite the early Soviet emphasis on mass physical culture, high-performance sport was the priority of these regimes and all three notionally used 'amateurism' to enhance national prestige. Having started out as opponents of Olympism, all three at different times came to prioritize winning medals at the Olympic Games.",
year = "2014",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199602056.013.011",
language = "American English",
booktitle = "The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism",
}