Red Dawn in Lake Placid: the semi-final hockey game at the 1980 Winter Olympics as cold war battleground.

C Nickerson - Canadian Journal of History of Sport, 1995 - search.ebscohost.com
C Nickerson
Canadian Journal of History of Sport, 1995search.ebscohost.com
This article discusses the semi-final hockey game between the United States and Soviet
Union at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. The author outlines his
analogy of the game as a battleground for the Cold War. As the 1980 Olympics took place,
over half of the world's peoples lived under mixed capitalist-socialist, or communist regimes.
Abstract
This article discusses the semi-final hockey game between the United States and Soviet Union at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. The author outlines his analogy of the game as a battleground for the Cold War. As the 1980 Olympics took place, over half of the world's peoples lived under mixed capitalist-socialist, or communist regimes.
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