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Introduction: histories of Cold War cities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2015

MATTHEW FARISH  and
DAVID MONTEYNE
MATTHEW FARISH
Affiliation:
Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto, 5047–100 St George Street, Toronto ON, CanadaM5S3G3
DAVID MONTEYNE
Affiliation:
Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB, Canada
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The guest editors for this special issue of Urban History are both Canadian, and for many Canadians the hottest conflict of the Cold War might have been the 1972 ‘Summit Series’, eight hockey games played between the Russian Red Army team and an all-star cast of Canadian professionals. Without delving into the sporting glories of the series (Canada won it, four games to three, with one tie), we can aver that the event was as much about diplomacy, national identity and political-economic rivalry in the context of the Cold War as it was about skating and scoring.

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Urban History , Volume 42 , Issue 4 , November 2015 , pp. 543 - 546
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References

1 For a play-by-play description of the 1972 games and surrounding events, including the photographs described, see Macfarlane, J., Twenty-Seven Days in September (Ottawa, 1973)Google Scholar. For comparison, see the recent work on hockey and the Cold War: Soares, J., ‘Cold War, hot ice: international ice hockey, 1947–1980’, Journal of Sport History, 34 (2007), 207–30Google Scholar; and Working Papers published by the Wilson Center, at www.wilsoncenter.org/publication-series/cwihp-working-paper-series, including Oldrich Tuma et al., ‘The (inter-communist) Cold War on ice: Soviet–Czechoslovak ice hockey politics, 1967–1969’ (no. 69, 2014), which details the celebrations of a Czech victory over the Russian hockey team shortly after the ‘Prague Spring’.

2 The touchstone for the recent turn toward a more global approach is Westad, O.A., The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of our Times (Cambridge, 2006)Google Scholar. Another exemplary title is Cullather, N., The Hungry World: America's Cold War Battle against Poverty in Asia (Cambridge, MA, 2010)Google Scholar.

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